Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since a university is in many ways a small city, it might be well to see what conclusions are reached by the New York authorities. It is doubtful if Mayor Thompson is sensitive to noise, but Mayor Walker may proclaim a quiet hour, when traffic shall cease, dogs be muzzled and babies gagged, and "all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;" If this should be found practicable, some way may be found to add to the other mottoes of a university, Requiescat in pace...
...Mayor Thompson then shouted at the Committee that he had come to state that the U. S. is the only agency to handle flood control. "You can't bust a thousand banks in the Mississippi without putting the rent signs on Bill Thompson's town, and that goes for every other town," he shouted...
Other speakers tried to add to Mayor Thompson's testimony about the flood. They were there, as he had shouted, "to crystallize sentiment." But Chairman Reid's "hearing" resolved itself into little more than roos-ter-boostering for Mayor Thompson...
Said onetime (1910-13) Senator Leroy Percy of Mississippi: "Big Bill Thompson . . . has made some enemies, but he'll never make an enemy in the Mississippi Valley...
After Mayor Thompson had left Washington, Chairman Reid's committee settled down to consider less spectacular phenomena, such as spillways, crevasses, levees and the main channel of the largest U. S. river. The planning of a national program began with requests for local relief. Representative Hull of Illinois put in a plea for stronger levees around Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Others from southern Illinois asked that the gooseneck narrows in the Mississippi at Cairo be widened instead...