Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earthquake, not wind, last week rocked the chair of Col. Carmi Alderman Thompson, personal representative in the Philippines of President Coolidge (TIME, April 12, THE PRESIDENCY, April 19, July 19 et seq. THE CABINET) as he dined with Mrs. Thompson in a Manila hotel. "Hm-m-m," said Mrs. Thompson, "an earthquake." "Well, we can't help that," answered the Colonel. "Pass the olives." The next day Col. Thompson clambered into his Filipino-financed automobile for a tour of Tayabas province and a two-day visit at the plantation home of Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino Senate. Like...
Puny brown flunkies scoured floors, made them slippery with shining wax, lighted candles. In strutted hundreds of preening women, gorgeously gowned in native plumery. A formal ball was being held in the provincial palace. The guest of honor, Mr. Thompson, strode not without dignity to the centre of the immense ballroom, made a speech in which he urged that the acreage of coconut crops be increased, since coconuts are essential in making oils, soap, cosmetics and substitutes for butter, lard...
...Down the gangplank strode Senator Sergio Osmena, took his proper place in the van of a colorful street parade proceeding through Luenta Public Park where Filipino lovers love o' nights. The Senator, who is credited with having defeated in 69th Congress repressive Filipino legislation, then called upon Col. Thompson, finally issued a statement. Said he: "Americans as a whole have the most friendly feeling toward us, sympathize with our aspirations for independence, recognize fully the obligation contained in the preamble to the Jones law and are disposed to favor more, instead of less, self-government for us." Recently...
William Hale Thompson, ex-mayor of Chicago, famed for his horn-blowing parties at Riverview (Chicago's Coney Island), told the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," explained how to use bunko parties to raise campaign money...
...mighty names?" They couldn't find his history in Who's Who (it's not there yet). Good Chicagoans pointed with pride to him when he carried a Democrat, William E. Dever, into the City Hall in 1922 over the wreckage of the grimy William Hale Thompson machine. Mayor Dever's record is "Boss" Brennan's most flourishing gesture. But he insists that politics is merely his avocation, along with shooting canvasbacks and sitting in on jackpots: "For me, politics is a sideline, a recreation. I make my living in business and have...