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What has been called "the cheerful insanity of Chicago politics" last fortnight achieved a convulsion that had long been promised. Mayor William Hale Thompson obtained the suspension of William McAndrew, superintendent of Chicago's public school system...
Among the campaign utterances of Mayor Thompson had been a promise to oust "that stool pigeon of King George," Superintendent McAndrew. The color of the epithet was derived entirely from the Thompson campaign scheme. He and his friends were out to startle the electorate with an unrivaled display of Americanism, much as a vulgar hostess will try to startle society with her flamboyant Persian or Turkish or Hawaiian ball. It would be easy to burlesque Superintendent McAndrew as a British "spy," an under cover agent for Buckingham Palace-even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan...
Called to Chicago in 1924, Mr. McAndrew had injured the feelings of self-satisfied Chicago school teachers by setting to work on the supposition that he could make the Chicago schools more educational than he found them...
There had been loud complainings, for example, when logical Mr. McAndrew announced that the teachers would not hold any more meetings of their union to discuss their hardships during the time for which they were paid to teach. There had been blushing and anger among the teachers when cheerful Mr. McAndrew invited the public to "sample" the teachers' work, by quizzing and examining a group of representative pupils on a public platform...
More potent, politically, than the teachers were the contractors of Chicago. They were annoyed with Mr. McAndrew because he had insisted that appropriations and contracts for new school buildings be based upon actual requirements, as discovered by annual surveys, instead of voted and handed out with grandiose political generosity...