Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Characterizing the recent "America First" campaign of Mayor W. H. Thompson of Chicago as a political gesture unworthy of serious attention by thinking people, S. H. Strawn of Chicago, president of the American Bar Association, stated to a CRIMSON representative last night that Thompson's efforts to "chase King George out of America" were humiliating and childish...
...Sodality gave its first concert of the season on Friday evening at the Thompson's Island Orphan House, under the auspices of the Phillips. Brooks House Association. Fingal's Cave Mendelssohu Egmont Overture Beethoven
...Meadows '30, A H. O'Nell '28, L. B. Osborne '29, C. H. Pforzheimer '28, J. M. Preston '28, A. E. Reed 2 G. B., W. G. Saltonstall '28, E. W. Sexton '29, O. M. Shaw 2L., R. W. Thayer '29, B. T. Thompson '28, C. H. Weymer 1G., Howard Whitmore '29, and W. S. Youngman...
Died. Florence Mills Thompson, 32, famed Negro comedienne, wife of U. S. Thompson; in Manhattan; a week after operation for appendicitis. Aged 3, she danced before the public on Harlem sidewalks accompanied by the raucous tunes of a hurdy-gurdy. Later (in 1922) she was featured in the first all-Negro musical comedy, Shuffle Along. Her last triumph was Florence Mills & Her Blackbirds (London, 1927). Said she before death: "I've not begun to be what I was meant to be." At the largest funeral ever known to Harlem, she lay in a $10,000 copper coffin. Six hundred...
...expires in February. "In the meantime Chicago has no Superintendent of Schools. The President of the Board has usurped the Superintendent's powers, and the schools are being run without the professional direction which the law requires." Shrewd, they added a paragraph which their rambunctious Mayor William Hale Thompson would understand: "We have become convinced that the present situation is a real crisis. It concerns a million parents -all voters-with enough power to enforce any demands they decide must be made to safeguard their children's interests...