Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm-minded chairman was wanted for the Federal Radio Commission. Through Secretary Hoover, President Coolidge again urged the post on his friend, Carmi Alderman Thompson of Cleveland. Col. Thompson declined. The President had to think of other prim-minded...
...large number of volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed by fire. Professor Muzzey could not refer directly to the existing situation because he has a suit for libel pending against Mayor Thompson and has been forbidden by his lawyers to refer to the case for publication...
...Mayor Thompson claimed that the offending works perverted the real facts about the early days in America and presented the matter in such a light as to contaminate the minds of Chicago's citizen with the viewpoints of our country's onetime enemies. He particularly feared "Angelicizing" of the viewpoint of inhabitants of Chicago, although he did not use quite that expression...
...Frankfort. Ky., small Fleming Thompson, aged 13. put on a top hat and canvassed Kentucky's House of Representatives for an appointment as pageboy. Voted down, he applied to the State Senate, which last week voted that Fleming Thompson might be personal pageboy for Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt provided he continued wearing a top hat throughout the Senate's session...
Freshman Boston Athletic Association at Boston Harvard 5. Boston Athletic Association 0; O. Phipps '30 defeated E. A. Thompson, 3-0; J. C. Breckinridge '30 defeated J. Connelley, 2-0; A. C. Ingraham '20 defeated R. Steinert, 2-1; N. F. Glidden '30 defeated J. R. Dowling, 3-0, S. C. Wheelock '30 defeated R. Carney...