Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 2 in the Union, Houston Thompson will speak. Mr. Thompson was a former member of the Federal Trade Commission, and he will probably deal with problems in labor and the methods the Commisson has used in dealing with them...
...remember that three hundred votes is substantially short of a majority in a convention which will seat more than a thousand delegates. And it is also necessary to remember that Lowden is one of a large number of gentlemen in IIIinois who have a standing quarrel with Big Bill Thompson, and that this fact may deprive him of a solid delegation from his own State
...Coolidge. The "Coolidge-anyway" movement, revived last fortnight as a local expedient in Illinois by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, drew another breath last week when National Republican Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles of New York stepped out of President Coolidge's study one day and said: "Mr. Coolidge will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen...
...independent of people and things as they ought to be." For ten years Psychologist Watson experimented with babies at Johns Hopkins and Columbia University, reaching, among other things, the conclusion that babies should never be kissed or cuddled. Since 1924 he has been vice president of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in Manhattan...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...