Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of Pi Delta Epsilon, the literary fraternity, has branded the above statement as absolutely false, and instead lauds the editor of "Froth" for the publication of the issue. Major W. O. Thompson, the "subject of the front cover caricature," states, "I was highly pleased with the entire magazine, and consider the issue a distinct achievement in the field of journalism. The entire 'Froth' staff should be commended upon it, and I took the reference to myself in the manner intended, that of an excellent joke...
...inexperienced in the construction of swimming pools, a questionnaire is being sent out by the Harvard Athletic Association to the colleges and institutions which have aquatic tanks in order to procure information useful in the designing of the new university pool, it was announced last night by H. S. Thompson '99, Graduate Treasurer...
This move took a lot of wind out of the next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work...
...posting of 300 policemen to guard other city officials' homes, especially Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's. Two families in the Thompson apartment building took good advice and moved...
Undismayed, Mayor Thompson left town, going to Washington to have a fat finger in the larger political business of Flood Control...