Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John R. Thompson, of Chicago, has, like others, a home in Lake Forest, is, like others, member of the Chicago Athletic Club, Hamilton Club, South Shore Country Club. But none but he has in Chicago, 47 restaurants...
...Thompson restaurants "attract by sheer pull of good food, cleanliness, purity, service, prices ailways kept down, even in the War." Based on these principles, the Thompson Restaurants, now 103, have spread into all principal cities from Milwaukee to New Orleans, from Providence to Kansas City. In 1921, the volume of business exceeded $15,000,000. Mr. Thompson, also in the grocery business, has netted a fortune. Thirty years ago he was a downstate Illinois farmer...
...smile made Da Vinci famous: laughter on canvas has contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...
...John R. Thompson, of Chicago, has, like others, a home in Lake Forest, is, like others, member of the Chicago Athletic Club, Hamilton Club, South Shore Country Club. But none but he has in Chicago, 47 restaurants...
...Sedgwick Lecture is given annually in memory of Professor William Thompson Sedgwick, who was one of the founders of the Harvard Technology School of Public Health...