Word: hale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work for the rest of the way. Readers who recommend the full college course for the son exactly balance those who recommend it for the daughter. A few are noncommittal. There is one notable dissenter: William McAndrew, the impish bearded pedagog who was forced by one-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to retire in 1928 as Chicago's Superintendent of Schools. Wrote...
...Illinois such an exhibition could mean but one thing. William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was on the loose again. Kicked out of Chicago's mayoralty last year. Big Bill the Builder, brassiest showman out of show business, had taken the stump once more. No candidate himself, he was urging the re-election of twotime (1921-29) Governor Lennington Small. the character who was indicted, tried and made to disgorge withheld interest on State funds in 1925. On his ten-day showboat cruise "to inspect waterways." Big Bill had brought along the top of the State Republican ticket, the candidates...
...blue Buick flew along the road toward Plymouth, and at its wheel sat a stately, dignified man, gray but hale, taking obvious delight in the throbbing power he controlled. The needle on the swank dial crept from left to right, from sixty to seventy, perhaps toward that exhilarating eighty. It was then fate intervened, and when the big Buick drew to a stop by the kerb the policeman's scathing tongue had respect for neither the distinguished lawyer or famed administrator that were one in the stately, dignified...
...Hale Immigrants. Let there be a free migration of eugenically hale individuals, urged Dr. D. F. Ramos of Havana. Each nation may decide what genetic factors it considers essential and examine immigrants for those factors. If an immigrant's child shows any bad characteristics, that child may be deported. If one of the child's parents is native born, the hybrid child has the just privilege of trying to prove that the bad inheritance originated locally, was not imported. In such case the child may continue to live where he was born. Weighty approver of Dr. Ramos' suggestion...
Died. Professor Edward Everett Hale, 69, author, great-great-nephew of Patriot Nathan Hale; of a heart attack; in Schenectadv...