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Again the present educational system in America has been challenged, this time a by a college undergraduate rather than by a professional educator. W.H. Hale, in the current issue of the Harkness Hoot, has accused the American university of debasing its function by stooping to popularism and then trying to cure the evil by legislation on requirements, by the establishment of new institutions, and by the erection of costly buildings...
Despairing then, he hurries towards the exit portal of the sanctuary. And the last thing that greets his departing eye, at the end of the nave, is a telephone booth, designed as a fourteenth-century confessional. William Harlan Hale in The Nation
Among the first to leave was William Hale Thompson. A truck removed his office furniture, including twelve telephones. Then he took a party of 70 not-too-happy friends off on a chartered steam packet Cape Girardeau for a cruise down the Mississippi River...
When George V learned last week that William Hale (I'll-bust-King-George-on-the-snoot) Thompson had been defeated for re-election as Mayor of Chicago (TIME, April 13), His Majesty chuckled...
...political fate of the Chicago mayor whose slogan was "Keep King George Out of Chicago," and who had threatened to "bust King George on the snoot," was front-page material in London last week. Nearly every paper in the city reported the defeat of William Hale Thompson (TIME, April 13), in page-wide banners and lengthy editorials. Even in Paris the headline of La Liberté was BIG BILL BEATEN...