Word: haling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back to Chicago went Citizen Capone by swift and stealthy air jumps. He arrived in time for this week's bitter mayoral primary election in which he and his activities had become a hot campaign issue between Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and Judge John Homer Lyle, candidates for the Republican nomination. Ducking out of sight into his underworld, he supervised his "political interests" while in the upperworld sheriffs were deputized, American Legionaries recruited to preserve order. Judge Lyle challenged the police to serve his vagrancy warrant on Capone as the city's No. 1 Public Enemy...
FRESHMEN SECONDS Kirkland, l.w. r.w., Foster Beale, c. c., Wadsworth Gallagher, r.w. l.w., Wolcott F. Gleason, l.d. r.d., Thorndike Martin, r.d. l.d., R. Gleason C. E. Ware, g. g., Hale or Bartol...
...play is one of the type known as "problem plays", here representing the evils arising in a democratic republic when mass control passes into the hands of unscrupulous and private-minded individuals. Ably creating an illusion of reality as clever and unprincipled politicians, William Hale Thompson and John H. Lyle act the leading roles. A certain A. Capone is rumored to be the producer of this bit of modern satire, and Mr. Capone, it is said, has taken great care that every detail of the production shall be perfect...
...William Hale Thompson was born in Boston May 14, 1869, scion of a wealthy and respectable family. In 1900 after playcowboying in Wyoming, he took a $50 bet in the Chicago Athletic Club from his friend George Jenney that he was not scared to go into politics, was elected Alderman from the Second Ward. On April 6, 1915 he was elected Mayor of Chicago, with the aid of notorious Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, on a Wet-Dry, White-Black, German-British platform. "Freedom for Ireland" got him his re-election in 1919. His third election...
...resources). The president of this 86-year-old corporation is a person of importance. When he goes in to his directors (on the second Wednesday of the month) there are among others present the Republican boss of New York (Charles Dewey Hilles), the chairman of a great railroad (Hale Holden), the chairman of the largest bank in Chicago (George McClelland Reynolds), the president of the largest university in the U. S. (Nicholas Murray Butler), a onetime president of the U. S. itself...