Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper Ohio, if not the whole continent, by announcing that the Willis Will-to-Win was "a pulsing, throbbing movement that is hourly gaining force throughout the country...
...reduce all else to hazy indistinction. Only occasionally, when fads are scarce, he must turn to what is merely new, whether or not it possesses the gaudy qualities that best suit his vein. In hard times like these, when Mah Jong, Princeton, the crossword puzzle, channel swimming, Lindbergh, Mayor Thompson and Hickman are no longer news, he is obliged to seize whatever the day offers. Such understanding of an old, yet somehow ever new, problem explains the consideration of the Reading Period in the current issuse of the Lampoon...
Died. William Howard Thompson, 56, lawyer, onetime (1913-1919) Democratic Senator from Kansas; of heart disease; in Washington...
...York, and to Davis Greek Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y. was awarded a prize of $2000 for the campaign of D. & G. Sutures, in the industrial campaign field. Under the heading of "Scientific Research in Advertising" a research study entitled. "Retail Shopping Areas" from the J. Walter Thompson Co., New York City, won a prize...
...automobile one day last week. They were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds: ". . . We believe that by the time the Republican Convention is at hand the leaders...