Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political air was full of similar sentiments, expressed for various reasons by Republican statesmen in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts. Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him. For example, in Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was frankly borrowing the Coolidge virtues as window-dressing for a campaign in behalf of discredited Governor Len Small...
...Houston Thompson, former secretary of the Federal Trade Commission will be the central figure in the Democratic Club meeting to be held in the Living Room of the Union Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Thompson will speak on "Monopoly and Its Relation to the Present Campaign...
...Thompson will take up the trust question in relation to big business in order to aid in the formulation of the trust plank in the domestic platform of the club. He was prominent in the administration of President Wilson, and has been mentioned by a number of leading Democrats as a possible dark horse candidate for the next Presidency...
...more potent politician than the Better Element. It lifts politics right out of Politics. But then, successful, the Better Element forgets. Last week, Seattle reached the turning point of the same sort of Better Element cycle by which New York got a Hylan after a Mitchell, Chicago a Thompson after a Dever, and by which Detroit will inevitably get a question mark after its Lindberghian granduncle, Mayor John C. Lodge...
Reported Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, most derisive of U. S. novelists, specialist on babbitts, medicos, parsons; to Miss Dorothy Thompson, foreign correspondent of the New York Evening Post. From Naples, Arthur Lewis vigorously denied the engagement, pronouncing the rumor "ridiculous and even libelous." Mrs. Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis is now in Reno, admittedly to obtain a divorce...