ARVEY'S 'FREE ENTERPRISE'

...his representatives had demanded a jury decision on the evaluation for precisely the same reason 11 was this last point that sec us to have most impressed the Illinois Bar Association, which recently ileal eel Arvey and Fnstein who was not a Judge at the time any of the pun bases were made of any mi propriety...

...to do a series of articles for L'Aurore...

...That only the threat of a wideopen split in the Democratic party keeps Arvey in office is generally conre ded, hut some observers feel that it was nol exactly the public reaction that so dismayed the old peace-maker...

...He was unwilling to accept the job full-time...

...Louis Montyhand, another of Arvey's law partners...

...On December 15, how -vi'i', three days afte r the initial Sun-Times expos', Kenned' did announce that $8,500,000 worth of settlements pending before the City Council would be reconsidered...

...Case is Maynard v. Eastern Air Lines...

...John Ohly, one of the few liberals in the military establishment, has been nominated assistant director of the Military Aid, Program after refusing appointment as Assistant Secretary of Defense or Assistant Secretary of the Army...

...Most states have a limitation on amount recoverable—for example, $20,000 in Connecticut, $5,000 in New Mexico...

...As it is, a potential issue has been investigated into unconsciousness...

...4 ACCORDING TO the first disclosure published in the Chicago Sun-Times last December, yie Arvey syndicate had bought an entire block along Clinton Street, just west of the Chicago River, in 1946, sometime after the city had started condemnation proceedings "against the property...

...Remember Joe Ball, the Minnesota anti-labor Senator who got licked bad...

...Among those to take advantage of this delay was a syndicate headed by Juke Arvey, Democratic boss of Illinois...

...Until a year ago (he nominal owner ¦ I tin building was oln living Koppel...

...Joe Barnes, formerly of the Herald Tribune, PM, the Compass and points left, is interested in a new magazine...

...nominal and actual, is unknown At vey claims to have sold the building to one of Ills clients, a man who, when questioned, demon strated a lemaikable vagueness as to the details of Ins ownership...

...The next day Kennedy replaced his Commissioner and special investiuatiiiK attorney with a five-man board, headed by City Counselor Adamowski This board was empowered to review all land purchases made since Kennedy became Mayor...

...piotege <it H,inn It Uncles b.i.-s ul I hie ago s libit al tilth Wai d and mi in l.i i lit Ihi1 well known law thin ..I Arvey...

...Question is where must the family of an air accident victim sue—in the state where flight originated or in the state where the mishap occurred...

...Arvey pointed out with satisfaction, in itself almost justified the investment, lie further revealed that he- had kept his name secret in order to avoid charges of political favoritism...

...The other members of the syndicate were equally experienced: Henry Crown, whose mam source of income is the contracting of supplies for government agencies...

...In spite of this absolution, the re action to his real estastc ventures still troubles Arvey...

...I M...

...THE* LAST Str.\-TIMKS discovery involved Isidore Brown, Mastei-inChanccry of the Circuit Court Brown, together with some others, bought a building in 1947 for $300,000...

...This move came the day after State's Attoi - ney Boyle announced an investigation ol the Clinton Street deal, subsequently widened by Governor Stevenson to a probe of all expenditures for the supei highway, since of the $16,500,000 al icady spent, $7,500,000 was state money...

...The dark horse, however, is Ida Kraus...

...as far as Senile liberals are concerned...

...Harry Shulman of Yale, longtime Ford-UAW umpire, has resigned...

...Fortunately foi the investors, the city did not start aequn ing land foi the project until after the war...

...Arvey was quick to point out that he was acting entirely within his rights lie had bought the Clinton Street property, so he claimed, as a "longterm investment" for his children...

...Present ownei.-hip...

...If it's musical perfection you seek, try the Bach Aria Group, an outstanding collection, of talents—voice and instrumental—dedicated to the Bach cantatas...

...Epstein has specialized, since 1928, in the problems of real estate legal and speculative...

...Reports say the Indian CP is making serious Inroads ta the hinterland...

...Says the Stalinist publication, He [Rogge] states that a fearful analogy can note be made between Germany of 1932 and America of 1948 and 1949...

...Periodically, it is reported from the Morrison Hotel that Arvey, sick at heart over public ingratitude and suspicion, wants to quit politics...

...against adoption Is Professor Thomas (I Love Henry Wallace) I. Emerson, a fellow-traveler's fellow-traveler...

...New York State has no top limit...

...He's doing a "Joe Ball Washington Labor Letter" which is described as "prophecy on matters affecting labor relations...

...LONG-RANGE FORECAST: NMU's Joe Curran is understood to be Phil Murray's idea of a successor to the CIO president...

...Since, therefore, no one could profit from Arvey's embarrassment, except possibly the taxpayers, the excitement quickly sub sided...

...However, with the exception of the illegal enthusiasm of one minor Democratic jobholder, nothing substantial was uncovered Neither were these disclosures ex ploited by anti Arvey Democrats AI though there is open dissension inside Democratic ranks, no one is really strong enough to replace Arvey with out wrecking the Party...

...Y. Post) who stood up for labor's right to strike...

...During the litigation, the Arvey group purchased the land for approximately $900,000...

...An investigalion of the superhighway con cleiiiriatioiis conducted by his factional Iocs could have unfortunate results for Arvey...

...and John Gottlieb, who in 1940, us the result of a heartwarming testimonial by the then Mayor Kelly, was leased two hangars at one of the municipal airports...

...Heard on the left THE BIG ISSUE of the new session of Congress will be...

...Arvey, kingpin in Illinois ' Democratic politics, has not been on the best of terms with Kennedy...

...For first time sime 1045, Time Guild unit elected complete anti-CP slate...

...any change in ownership...

...Senator Byrd's Committee on Non-Essential Expenditures is going to be an important target of the Truman Administration, the idea being that Byrd's committee, which receives a $200,000 annual appropriation, is non-essential...

...Prof...

...O. John Rogge's Our Vanishing Civil Liberties is quoted approvingly in the Nov...

...as ACLU officers...

...on condition that their identities be kept secret...

...The rest of the property, including three buildings, remained in the hands of the syndicate...

...This increased income...

...It is quite possible that Governor Stevenson and Mayor Kennedy were motivated by something more- than an unremitting competitive zeal for clean government...

...Bryant was the paper's second editor and lasted a half century...

...Indians can't afford the parity prlceTand Humphrey hopes to got the State Department to see necessity for Immediate aid...

...Second candidate is George Patterson, Rubber Workers counsel...

...The Whip, AI Votaw...

...cntlie Incident weic the- ic ,n tiems ul Govciitol Steve us.ai .if i< I Mayoi Kennedy The Mayoi blew hoi ,nd cold, alternating demands foi ,, i oiiipli'te "Who's Who on Congress Street" with teise "no comments " His ollice explained that Chicago had In en and still was unwilling to but den the taxpayers with the expense of remit oidi'is In discover the secret owner., of property purchased by the city...

...it'., land values have- malntainc-<l l In i i I m quite .nil quatcly ul least i.lol . 1 iii piOpOSCll lOUle 1/1 lllC %\M iiiillmli Coogi e-ss Stioct supe i hlghwa v Kust pioposcd iii 1940, this lughwav, i uniting lliiin tin- Lakeshoie thiciufch the South Loop to the Wc»t Side, should prove us fcieut ii boon to mo torists if it is ever constructed as it has already been to lai sighted in vcstors...

...At thi.s time Hie valuation was set at $300,000...

...THE MAN RESPONSIBLE for the discovery and purchase of this valuable piece of property was Samuel B. Epstein, at that time one of Arvey's law partners...

...Had Kennedy been willing to precipitate an open battle, the Sun Times disclosures could have had serious consequences...

...Senator Hubert Humphrey Is planning a pressure compaign to obviate parity payments for wheat by India, whose people are literally starring...

...Osmond K. Fraenkel has proposed as a so-called compromise that the Emerson faction adopt "substantially" the wording of the resolution...

...Meanwhile, no Yale chapter...

...Fortune Magazine, now located at the Empire State Buildirig,,will shortly move uptown to the Time-Life Bldg...

...Arvey's activities first seemed to be material for a first-class scandal...

...who ip»n» a y»ar with ECA In Pari*, hat written for Horizon...

...Mont v band & llodis Koppel in addition to his duties as pieclllcl captain and "dummy owner, g as ap pointed, appiopi lalcl) enough, a %'IM a mold h investigiitoi tin I lie City Coun id Housing Committee in July...

...State's Attorney Boyle halted all condemnations, and his office took over the entire investigation...

...added $100,000 worth of federal tax stamps, and proceeded to jack the city up to an offer of $550,000 before unwelcome Yuletide publicity persuaded the city to reconsider...

...Senator Wayne Morse's assistant, Ivar H. Peterson, is being boomed /or the National Labor Relations Board vacancy...

...For adoption of the resolution is Professor Fred Rodell...

...is teaching reading and writing with materials, of course on Stalin...

...Rodell's answer is still no...

...too much opposition, particularly from Textile Workers president Emil Rieve...

...i . . A case, due for Supreme Court attention, may affect hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage suits against U. S. commercial airlines...

...It sent Brown into court in a capacity other than that he had previously enjoyed...

...Following this initial disclosure, the .Still Times discovered there wei e three more property holdings, two of which involved Arvey and Kpstein For one c.f these, a large office building just west of the Loop pun based by the Arvey group in September...

...Robert Longuet, great-grandson of Karl Marx, has left the proStalinist Paris dally, Ce Soir, and is now in U.S...

...New York's Local 32-B, Building Service International Union, is planning to set up four scholarships annually for children of its members...

...As a result of this and similar achievements, he was rewarded in 1947 with a Superior Court Judgeship...

...Henry Christman's researchers for a life of William Cullen Bryant (William Sloane Associates to publish) have unearthed the fact that Bryant teas a great liberal editor (N...

...29 issue of Cominform organ, For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy...

...Among the most interesting aspects nl lh...

...e • * Yale's faculty wants to start an American Civil Liberties Union chapter, but there is a big fight over the ACLU's famous 1940 resolution which bars totalitarian...

...a figure contested by the owners...

...On December I A, however, Springfield riposted...

...The Arvey group received $I,20K,452 foi a strip running through the middle of the block...

...Kvents then began to move...

...Walter Reuther is out...

...As proof, he adduced the fact that the lirst act of his combine was to raise the rent...

...Two years later, the filial derision was handed down by a jury, an unusual procedure requested by the syndicate...

...only Kennedy's unwillingness openly to break with Arvey dissuaded him...

...Actually, the building is liemg held in trust, a method by which real estate is con sidcrcd personal property, thereby eliminating the necessity foi icccudmi...

...On December Hi, a discrepancy of $1:19.7117 was discovered between the evaluation set by the Superhighway Commissioner and by the tax assessor on Mastcr-in-Chanecry Brown's prop city...

...Adamowski was very anxious to run for the Democratic nomination for Senator against Arvey ^ backed Scott Lucas...

...The paper took a beating from advertisers who almost drove it out of^business...

...1941...

...194ti, the ntv had raised its offer from $150,000 to $.110,000...

...Ohly was formerly special assistant to War Secretary Patterson and Defense Secretary Forrestal...

...Arvey, legal, and always circumspect, retains his dominant position thanks to the unwillingness of any of the factions within the Democratic party to risk an open battle for power...

...India...

...So long as this remains the case, the private, individual and free enterprise of active Chicago Democrats seems unlikely to suffer more than superficial annoyance...

...Politic and tha Krporlrr...

...College will probably be Columbia and Barnard...