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...keeping Mrs. McCormick in politics. Other influences are Mrs. McCormick's unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson in his loud "100% American" campaign last year, and against Congressman Richard Yates...
...members gather. A representative actor reads Booth's dedication speech, which ends close to the stroke of midnight. At that stroke Walter Oettel, Booth's dresser in the theatre, now the superintendent of the club, passes a cup in which the members drink the health of this hale old tradition...
Most potent of the puffs that blew corpulent William Hale Thompson into the mayoralty of Chicago last April was his loud cry: "Americanism!" Once in office, the Mayor announced a crusade against School Superintendent William McAndrew, imported three years before from New York City because his recognized ability was needed to improve Chicago's educational system. Mr. McAndrew had vexed the Mayor. He had interfered with the easy-going manner of awarding contracts for school buildings. He had taught that the U. S. Army retreated before the advance of the British on Washington...
Some of the most interesting asquisitions are "Treasury of Sacred Song" by J. E. Palgrave: "A New England Boyhood" by E. W. Hale; "Punch" 1927, a bound collection of that magazine: "Torrocks Jaunts" by P. S. Surteas; and "Touchdown" by Coach. Alonzo Stagg, an account of the present University of Chicago mentor's experience with the game of football...
...major with the Spanish-American War Rough Riders; held a colonelcy during-long years with the South Dakota National Guard. He was in South Dakota politics before becoming Standard Oil Co. of Indiana's general attorney in 1907. He is a large man, at 61 years hale and strong, a sturdy pacer to his executives at their work. He can do so, Barron's Weekly revealed last week, by means of a trick of recuperation that he has developed. He can go to sleep at will-for minutes or hours, to wake up later refreshed. While traveling...