Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...seven months since the new Mayor, in his official inaugural address, declared his intention, though he has no proper jurisdiction over the schools, to proceed to oust the superintendent...
Superintendent McAndrew reached the door. The voice of the board's president, J. Lewis Coath, reached him: "Will the superintendent please remain?" Superintendent McAndrew's short, broad-shouldered form passed the door jam. Mayor Thompson's figurative teeth gnashed. One of them broke from the denture. It was Walter J. Raymer, Chicago banker, theretofore docile member of the board. He cried...
...coast but [his voice rose with anger] I am not willing to listen to Mr. Russell, a Socialist ['prosecution' witness testifying of pro-British propaganda in the U. S.], whose greatest ambition is realized when you pit nation against nation." The Chicago affair may become Cadmean* for Mayor Thompson...