Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above deeds and why remained a mystery-the usual Chicago bombing mystery. Posters were tacked on fences and poles throughout the city, advertising $65,000 in rewards for information concerning the Deneen and Swanson pineapplers. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe and others were sponsors of the rewards. Meanwhile, Chief of Police Michael Hughes reported: "It is almost impossible to trace bombers. There are 50 places in the city where dynamite can be purchased just as a person buys a package of cigarets...
...Chicago counts himself a politician of any repute until he has been pineappled or at least threatened. And no man is at present more entangled in Chicago politics than Senator Deneen. He is leader of the Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith...
Alderman B. A. Cronson, supporter of the America First party, and Mayor Thompson: "Don't you worry, you guys, America First will be first on April 10 without any pineapple days...
Soon after the opening of school the annual reception to the new men was given. Over 100 students and members of the Faculty turned out to enjoy several short speeches, some entertainment, and refreshments. R. D. Thompson 3Dn, Secretary...
...Emigh '30, chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, D. P. Tucker '29, chairman of the Deputations Committee, C. W. Lowry E.T.S., secretary of the Graduate Schools Society, C. H. Willard 3L., secretary of the Law School Society, W. T. Buddington 3M., secretary of the Medical School Society, R. D. Thompson 4D., secretary of the Dental School Society, Gordon Huggins '29, social service secretary, and C. M. Underhill '31, foreign student secretary...