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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three hundred mayors representing cities from all parts of the United States attending First National Airports Conference called by Mayor William Hale Thompson extend congratulations on your achievement," said a telegram from Chicago to Mexico City, last week. Notably absent among these 300 mayors was John C. Lodge of Detroit whose election a Detroiter ascribes partially to the fact that Mr. Lodge is granduncle to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. One good reason why Mr. Lodge did not attend the mayoral gathering at Chicago was that, elected mayor of Detroit only last month, he has not yet been inaugurated. Mayor-elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 301 Mayors | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...competition will last seven weeks, and the work of the candidates has been so planend by Manager B. T. Thompson '28 that it will not interfere with scholastic duties during the Reading Period or with preparation for the Mid-year examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE TRACK POSTS ARE OPEN FOR SOPHOMORE COMPETITION | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, the man without whose support Mr. Lowden cannot hope to enlist his own state delegation, continued hostile to Mr. Lowden. Mayor Thompson has enormous admiration for President Coolidge. Last week, Mr. Thompson's comment on the Coolidge statement was a clownish mixture of shrewdness and absurdity: "Well, I'll vote for him anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

General direction of the production is in the hands of C. A. Hicks ocC. The rest of the management includes Charles Leatherbee '29, costumes; R. H. Thompson '30, lighting; L. F. Robinson '30, properties; and T. J. Smith '30, business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST OF MIRACLE PLAY ANNOUNCED | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...commends the admirable restraint exhibited by omission of the obvious reference to "indifferent horsemanship." The Granta, possibly justifiably, saw no reason to exclude the obvious and its American number is liberally sprinkled with remarks concerning those things by which the United States is known to the Englishman: Hollywood, Mayor Thompson of Chicago, and banditry--of Chicago and elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT IS TO LAUGH | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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