Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What has been called "the cheerful insanity of Chicago politics" last fortnight achieved a convulsion that had long been promised. Mayor William Hale Thompson obtained the suspension of William McAndrew, superintendent of Chicago's public school system...
Among the campaign utterances of Mayor Thompson had been a promise to oust "that stool pigeon of King George," Superintendent McAndrew. The color of the epithet was derived entirely from the Thompson campaign scheme. He and his friends were out to startle the electorate with an unrivaled display of Americanism, much as a vulgar hostess will try to startle society with her flamboyant Persian or Turkish or Hawaiian ball. It would be easy to burlesque Superintendent McAndrew as a British "spy," an under cover agent for Buckingham Palace-even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan...
...Thompson was elected last April because loud talk succeeds nowhere so well as in Chicago. But then Mr. Thompson was faced with the necessity of finding a legal way to oust Mr. McAndrew. It is easier to shout epithets than to prove them and the ousting of Mr. McAndrew dragged along until last month. Then President J. Lewis Coath of the Chicago school board, who had been charged with the "job," announced that a way had been found. Mr. Coath had not found the way himself. He had been told about it by James Todd, the school board...
...political) and think he has made a wonderful President. Honest in everything. Self-seeking in nothing, perhaps a bit slow in making up his mind, which is not a bad fault. It makes the ordinary citizen rather tired to find people gunning for Coolidge when "Canivora" like big Bill Thompson are running at large. One a builder and a conservator, the other an obstructionist and destructionist...
...unable to attend, his place was taken, spontaneously, by onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. The substitution made a very considerable difference in the nature of the speech delivered, for Mr. Pinchot vigorously attacked the Federal Government for entrusting flood control to Army engineers, and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago expressed his total lack of confdence in the flood-prevention measures recently (TIME, Aug. 1) expounded by Mr. Hoover at Rapid City. Mr. Pinchot termed the Army engineers' efforts at flood-control "the most colossal engineering blunder of the human race." Mayor Thompson said that "our failure...