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...Orleans in an automobile one day last week. They were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds: ". . . We believe that by the time the Republican Convention...
...finds Manhattan "an Unsleeping Beauty . . . ever so slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla's sight are Iowa, the state universities, the hotels, the promptly-answered telephones, and San Francisco, "tilted city." Most pleasing are U. S. Pullman Porters, to whom, as "charming guardians," he dedicates his book, an occasionally ironical work...
Upon the wistful departure of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, famed ganglander, for a winter vacation (TIME, Dec. 16),* Chicago announced itself to be convalescent from the civic disease that had made it the most notably criminal city in the U. S. Even Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson stopped shouting about Chicago's virtues to announce that its vices were on the wane. Chief of Police Michael Hughes gave out figures to the effect that Chicago was 66% less criminal in 1927 than formerly...
...honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance but affection for Mayor Thompson; political comment everywhere because Mayor Thompson, undoubted controller of the Illinois delegation...
...Hale--Evashwicke, Gallicchio v. Taft--Moison, Costello