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Chicago: City on the Make (1961)
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For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.
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Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
March 28, 1909
Died:
May 9, 1981
(aged 72)
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