Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the grand ballroom of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, last week strode Chicago's Mayor, William Hale Thompson. Thereupon a band of Chicago high school students (on special vacation for the day) played the Mayor's campaign anthem, "America First, Last and Always," and a sextette of uniformed Chicago policemen harmonized on the same hymn...
Thus opened the Flood Control Conference, called by Mayors Thompson of Chicago, O'Keefe of New Orleans and Miller of St. Louis, but with Mayor Thompson the dominant spirit. Seven U. S. Senators and two Cabinet members (Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor) were present; so were Mayors from many a Mississippi Valley city; so was onetime U. S. Senator William Lorimer, once barred from the Senate after an investigation of his campaign expenditures; so was many another notable...
Speeches numerous and lengthy fell into two classes, depending on whether the speaker did or did not represent the Federal Government. Of the latter sort was Mayor Thompson's address which termed the flood "an indictment of and challenge to the Federal Government," something which "might have been expected in China but not in the rich America with its boasted good government...
...fifth inning with one man out, Connell of Pennsylvania singled to right and went to third when Thompson singled to the same place. With Cole at the plate, Connell executed the Squeeze play, and beat Barbee's throw to the plate, but Umpire Baltzel ruled that Cole was not in his box and Connell, therefore, had to go back to third. Connell came running in again on the next pitched ball, but this time Cole hit a foul tip that was just wide enough to escape Chauncey's ready glove. On the next ball, however, Connell's mighty efforts...
...college so that the whole Harvard team will not make the trip to Haverford. J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, L. H. Gordon '27, and B. H. Whitbeck '29 have already been picked while the choice of a fourth man is still unsettled between P. M. Lenhart '27 and Stephen Thompson...