Word: mcandrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Divorced. fMr. McAndrew, able, no stool pigeon, has sued Mayor Thompson for libel...
...Chicago board of education voted unanimously, last week, to make placid, bushy-haired William J. Bogan superintendent of public schools. He had been acting superintendent since last August when William McAndrew, famed "stool pigeon of King George," was ousted by Mayor William Hale Thompson...
...William McAndrew, ousted superintendent of Chicago schools (see p. 35), was applauded loudly when he said: "You remember, perhaps, what Dr. Eliot said to us not so many years ago: 'The fear of losing one's job has kept education in America fifty years behind its possible improvement.' . . . If I read the times aright, the chambers of commerce, the Lowells, the associations of mayors and governors will succeed in their protests against the rising costs of education. Then our magnificent high schools will follow in the tracks of Napoleon the Little to an inglorious end at some...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...
...Said Mr. McAndrew's lawyer, Francis X. Busch: "We are going to demonstrate that the Mayor of Chicago cannot defame a man's character without being made to answer for it. The charges now on hearing before the school board are not only ridiculous but are a collection of damnable lies, except the first in which he was accused of having an educational policy. This he confessed." Typical charges against Mr. McAndrew are that he cut pictures of George Washington out of history books, that he removed "Spirit of '76" lithographs from the walls of Chicago schools...