Word: haled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Wet Republican Mayor of Chicago. Reason: "Harmony...
...tonsils removed. Then, recumbent, he resigned his post. Stated reason: health. The Hughes tonsils, however, had little to do with the Hughes resignation. The Hughes resignation had long been sought by citizens, including the loud Tribune, who had grown weary of Chicago's bawdy disorderliness under Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill the Builder") Thompson. The Hughes resignation seemed to indicate that an end to the whole Thompson phenomenon was in sight. Thompson and his men were beaten and discredited in the primary election this spring. Thompson has been convicted of grafting and .ordered to pay back...
...Isaiah Bowman, Col. Claude Hale Birdseye, Samuel W. Boggs, erudite scientists, left for the International Geographic Congress at London with one burning purpose : "To prepare a map of the world with a scale of 16 miles to the inch." Their ship, the Leviathan, celebrated its sixth anniversary crossing...
...York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William Hale Harkness, George Pynchon, George Post...
...Chicago board of education voted unanimously, last week, to make placid, bushy-haired William J. Bogan superintendent of public schools. He had been acting superintendent since last August when William McAndrew, famed "stool pigeon of King George," was ousted by Mayor William Hale Thompson...