Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...COOLIDGE LAMS MR. THOMPSON ON THE SNOOT...
...editorial went on to say: "Citizens may be in doubt whether some supporters of Senator Deneen and Judge Swanson blew up their homes to elect their tickets, as Mr. Thompson and State's Attorney Crowe contend, or whether supporters of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Crowe blew up Mr. Deneen's house and Judge Swanson's house to elect the ticket of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Crowe. This is indeed a puzzle and a bewilderment, at this writing not near a solution. But it is nothing to the spectacle of Mr. Coolidge's gunmen coming in from...
...Mayor Thompson: "The Tribune can go to hell...
...Solution. Forget trouble and have a few parades, was Mayor Thompson's solution of the Chicago frenzy. He called together representatives of 50 improvement organizations and business clubs, explained to them his plan of a big-improvement -parade -every -other -week until Christmas. Said he: "Holding parades is the only way we can attract the attention of the public to what we are doing. The papers never boost us; they always...
...whole gang. We'll see whether these roughnecks from the East can shoot up Chicago and get away with it." The reason for Chief of Police Hughes' sudden activity was that a prohibition agent had shot and wounded one William Beatty, political worker for Mayor Thompson, in a saloon...