FRUITS OF RECKLESSNESS
CHICAGO BROUGHT TO VERGE OF CHAOS IMPOTENT LEADERS CHICAGO, Wednesday. Mr. Silas Strawn. a lawyer with an international reputation, today described the financial difficulties of Chicago as constituting the most serious situation which has ever confronted an American city. These conditions Mr. Strawn ascribed to reckless financing over a long period of years. Tho political leaders had failed utterly, and had been impotent to govern the city, the county, or the schools. As a result, they were on the verge of chaos. Mr. Silas H. Strawn is a member of the American Bar Association, of which he was president, 1927-2 S, and the Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations the presidency of each of which he held in turn Ho was a delegate .representing the United States to the special conference at Peking on Chinese customs tariffs, and American member and chairman of the Chinese Extraterritoriality Commission-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 879, 24 January 1930, Page 9
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149FRUITS OF RECKLESSNESS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 879, 24 January 1930, Page 9
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