Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern music will be the topic discussed in a meeting of the Liberal Club tonight at 7 o'clock, open to all students of the University, and Wellesley and Radcliffe Colleges, when Randall Thompson '20, a member of the Wellesley Music Department faculty speaks on the modern French composer Georges Antheil. Professor W. E. Hocking '01, and Mrs. Hocking, will be the guests of the Club for the evening...
...propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called Mayor Thompson "clown," "buffoon," "braying jackass." He did not mind. He had other things to think about...
...spokesmen announce that 10,000 people would go to Washington to lobby for the flood control legislation prepared at a conference which Mayor Thompson lately called independently of Federal agencies...
This last irritated Mayor Thompson. He retorted to Mr. Celler: "Permit me to suggest that you should not use the word intelligent , over your signature...
While his friends and backers began to wonder if their "Big Bill" might not have carried a splendid idea a bit too far, Mayor Thompson remained loudly confident. "I'm a guy," he says, "with the guts to speak right out. I've been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. I may not be smart but I'm smart enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success." First and foremost on Mayor Thompson's list of successful '"guys" is George Washington...