Word: haling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Chicago's late three-time showman-mayor, who cached some $1,500,000 in safe-deposit boxes which were undiscovered until his death (TIME, March 27), was claimed as a relative by scores of Thompsons. One Wisconsin claimant asked for $20,000 because Big Bill had promised to remember him for once saving his life by pressing a dime under Big Bill's nose to stop its bleeding...
After reporting tersely that he had executed the first phases of his mission, the task-force commander lapsed into radio silence. The Japs in the Marianas had been softened up for him by Major General Willis H. Hale's heavy bombers- their nearest bases 1,200 miles away in the captured Marshalls. Other Japs, in the Carolines to the south, had been pre-vented from interfering. Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Fifth Air Force heavies, from the Southwest Pacific, teamed with Hale's Army and Navy Liberators, had seen to that by bombing Paulau, Truk, Nauru...
...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's widow, at the opening of the onetime Chicago mayor's safe-deposit boxes, fainted as highly compressed wads of $20, $50, $100 and $1,000 bills sprang out. His closer chums guessed that Thompson, a son-of-wealth, had accumulated some $3-to-4,000,000 before he became mayor. But his estate was preliminarily evaluated at only $150,000. His safe-deposit box hoard to date...
...freshman Republican Representatives. All were internationalists and consistent supporters of Mr. Hull. They had written him a respectful letter requesting "some explanation of your puzzling silence" about concrete U.S. foreign policy. After 150 minutes the 21 Republicans emerged wrapped in gloom. Said Maine's Robert Hale, onetime Rhodes scholar: "Mr. Hull was cordial and courteous, but I left with the same impression that I had when I went in-that the Administration has no foreign policy." New York's Bernard W. Kearney was briefer: "No hits, no runs, no errors." Others recalled an occasion when John...
Died. William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, 74, flamboyant three-time mayor of Chicago; after a heart attack; in Chicago. The breezy giant entered Chicago politics in 1900 on a bet; in 1915 he was elected mayor by the largest plurality ever counted in any U.S. city up to that time. "Big Bill" was frequently accused of pro-Germanism during World War I. By 1919 he and Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin had built a political machine second to none; Thompson coasted to a second term on the slogan "Freedom for Ireland." His last term (1927-31) was his most colorful. Elected...