Not only in the financial firmament is Samuel Insull a fallen angel. Last week the trustees of the Chicago Opera met for 15 minutes to accept his resignation from their number. Then they announced "definitely but reluctantly" that there would be no Chicago Opera next season. What was needed, they frankly said, was what he had been, a "magnificent angel." Nearest man that Chicago could think of was Banker Charles Gates Dawes who, since his return from England this year and from Reconstruction Finance Corp. in Washington last month, has been thought...
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