Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the grand ballroom of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, last week strode Chicago's Mayor, William Hale Thompson. Thereupon a band of Chicago high school students (on special vacation for the day) played the Mayor's campaign anthem, "America First, Last and Always," and a sextette of uniformed Chicago policemen harmonized on the same hymn...
...that the prisoners are communists and foreigners. It contrasts this state of things with the political temper of Chicago where it finds, an agglomerate ethnic majority, conscious that another and more aristocratic portion of the city is Anglo-Saxon and descend from grandparents native born, has just elected as mayor, one who jollied and humored them...
...eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult to his mother. As the town marshal escorted her to the station, many a rotten egg was flung at the Hatchet-Swinger. She was jailed three times in Topeka. In Kiowa, when the mayor demanded that she pay damages to a battered saloon, she threatened him with fire and brimstone, then, as he allowed her to leave, turned, delivered a benediction: "Peace on earth-good will to men!" As her fame spread, there came offers for lecture tours. For some time her objections...
Many people witnessed the Derby ? 75,000 to be approximate. Among them were Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who used to be a jockey; Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, who presented Mr. Whitney with a golden cup; Mayor James J. Walker of New York, who is sel dom absent from any spectacle; Thomas D. Taggart, potent Indiana Democrat; Herbert Bayard Swope, who edits the New York World; Joseph Pulitzer, who bears a famed name and owns part of the World; Admiral Gary T. Grayson; and W. O. Mays, who as Federal Prohibition Administrator for Kentucky, said: "Hipflask violators...
...What's the big idea?" argued Alderman T. J. Byrne, opposed. "Nobody who is dead is in a hurry to get anywhere." Mayor William Hale Thompson ruled the bill defeated...