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...Coolidge. The "Coolidge-anyway" movement, revived last fortnight as a local expedient in Illinois by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, drew another breath last week when National Republican Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles of New York stepped out of President Coolidge's study one day and said: "Mr. Coolidge will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen...
This move took a lot of wind out of the next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work...
...posting of 300 policemen to guard other city officials' homes, especially Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's. Two families in the Thompson apartment building took good advice and moved...
Last week, Boston comprehended Stravinsky and shuddered. Said Philip Hale, dean of U. S. critics: "Stravinsky's greatest composition? Is it not the most important work that has appeared since Pelleas et Melisande...
...quarter-finals in the Ames Competition will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in Austin Hall North, when the Bryce Law Club opposes the Sanford Club. The case will be tried before Joseph Warren '97, Chief Justice; and J. N. Weich '17, of the firm of Hale and Dorr, and A. C. Townsend '11, of Ropes, Gray, Boyden; and Perkins, Associate Justices. H. V. Colby 2L, and A. D. A. Wieland 21, of the Bryce Club, will represent the plaintiff, while R. S. Cushman 2L and J. W. R. Zisgen 2L., of the Sanford Club, will...