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...Republican Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination in the primary next spring and her election next autumn, came from the heights and depths of her party. From the depths came a throaty rumble of assent from William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, blatant Mayor of Chicago. From the heights, at a luncheon of the Illinois Republican Women's Clubs, came the staccato bark of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who said: "I am for the women. I recognize their sincerity. When it comes to making mistakes I think...
Ambassador Judah never before held public office higher than a seat in the Illinois assembly. He has never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee...
Having settled his light, sturdy frame in an easy stance, having stroked once his neat grey mustache, Sir Esme became comfortably and consolingly humorous on the subject of such anti-British tirades as are hurled from the U. S. by William Hale Thompson, blatant Mayor of Chicago (TIME...
...Board of Education, a partial set of false teeth in Mayor William Hale Thompson's capable mouth, has orders to chew up Superintendent McAndrew. It refused to receive his statement. Whereupon Superintendent McAndrew silently collected his papers on his desk in the "trial" room, turned his back on the board and began to walk...
...Lowden has stood thus, he has been shouldered aside by a burly, blatant, sideshow barker from the city, whose ambition is not to sit in the chair himself but to call the crowd, direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...