Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grist for the tabloid mills, pun material for Will Rogers stuff out of which we-view-with-alarm editorials are written--such is the effect of William Hale Thompson's election as mayor of Chicago on the extra-Chicago portion of the nation. Meanwhile Chicago politicians scratch their heads and reformers settle down to a prosperous season. The city knows what to expect; two terms of Mayor Thompson have convinced it that all is not sweet and clean by the shorts of Lake Michigan. Nevertheless it is willing to have another...
...Gordon '27 and P. M. Lenhart '27. Whitbeck recently won the indoor intercollegiate title. Other members of the squad who are considered among the leading contestants for the remaining berths on the team are B. H. Whitbeck Jr. '29, J. H. Appleton '29, Robeson Bailey '29, S. F. Thompson '29, H. W. Sayles '28, J. C. Rueter '28, and S. G. French...
...reforms himself. Railway rates had been the issue of his political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which, when developed, may well be served by step-keeping public servants, journalistic and other wise, from foreign states...
...last four years, observant Alabamans have said that Birmingham's new "greatness" began in 1922 when Publisher Frederick I. Thompson, who publishes all the newspapers in Mobile (the News-Item, evening; the Register, morning) as well as the Journal at Alabama's capital, Montgomery, bought the Age-Herald. It is said that he made the purchase to get backing for Mobile's $10,000,000 project in the Birmingham coal and steel district, that he sold it once his purpose was accomplished...
Publisher Thompson had two partners when he bought the Age-Herald; Braxton Bragg Comer, the first citizen of Alabama, 79 this year, who governed Alabama from 1907 to 1911, and his son, Donald Comer...