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...trial for "insolence, insubordination, and the possession of a domineering attitude," School Superintendent of Chicago William McAndrew said: "They [the School Board] will fire me all right, but they'll have to stage a burlesque show to do it" (TIME, Oct. 10). After a week's adjournment of his trial, the second act was presented...
Most potent of the puffs that blew corpulent William Hale Thompson into the mayoralty of Chicago last April was his loud cry: "Americanism!" Once in office, the Mayor announced a crusade against School Superintendent William McAndrew, imported three years before from New York City because his recognized ability was needed to improve Chicago's educational system. Mr. McAndrew had vexed the Mayor. He had interfered with the easy-going manner of awarding contracts for school buildings. He had taught that the U. S. Army retreated before the advance of the British on Washington...
Eleven members constitute the Board. Six of them, a majority, could vote the superintendent out of office. Last week it appeared as though six of them, hearty henchmen of William Hale Thompson, would vote Mr. McAndrew out. The trial seemed but a protracted formality. But it was of interest, outside the courtroom because this was the first time a superintendent of schools had ever been tried in Chicago. The charges were insubordination (refusing to replace teachers who worked in the executive offices and sometimes substituted in the classroom, with civil service clerks) and unpatriotism. Evidence adduced to prove the latter...
...afternoon filled with soporific technicalities that occasionally snorted into colorful blasphemy, the whiskered "stool pigeon of King George" tilted far back in his swivel chair, read the Chicago Tribune comic strip about Andrew Gump, Minerva Gump, etc., etc. Above the edge of the newspaper, courtroom idlers could see Mr. McAndrew's iron grey hair. Occasionally he put the newspaper down and chuckled. Then the idlers noted his white whiskers well tinged with red, his high color, his eyebrows that laid a direct black line across his forehead...
Superintendent McAndrew might avoid dull afternoons in court by simply resigning. This he refused to do. Said he: "They'll fire me all right. But they'll have to stage a burlesque show...