Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCormick in politics. Other influences are Mrs. McCormick's unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson in his loud "100% American" campaign last year, and against Congressman Richard Yates...
Three years ago Mrs. McCormick was shouting from Illinois platforms against the Small-Thompson combination, which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...
Most potent of the puffs that blew corpulent William Hale Thompson into the mayoralty of Chicago last April was his loud cry: "Americanism!" Once in office, the Mayor announced a crusade against School Superintendent William McAndrew, imported three years before from New York City because his recognized ability was needed to improve Chicago's educational system. Mr. McAndrew had vexed the Mayor. He had interfered with the easy-going manner of awarding contracts for school buildings. He had taught that the U. S. Army retreated before the advance of the British on Washington...
...Burning down at us are 44 1,000-watt lamps over the ring . . . all is darkness in the muttering mass of crowd beyond the spotlight. . . . The 'mike' is fixed on the ring floor in front of us. . . . The crowd is thickening in the seats. . . . There's Jim Jeffries . . .Mayor Thompson in a cowboy hat . . . Irvin Cobb . . . John Ringling . . . Tex Rickard in a beige fedora. . . . It's like the Roman Coliseum...
...Thompson is at present connected with the firm of Coffin and Burr, Boston stockbrokers. It is understood that Mr. Thompson will continue this business connection while devoting most of his time to the management of the University's athletic finances. He will take over his duties at once...