Word: carmi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rent and sore from its April primary, the G. 0. P. of Ohio last week reached the first stage of real convalescence. Carmi Alderman Thompson, voluble Clevelander who led the late Senator Willis' presidential campaign and inveighed bitterly against the invading forces of Hooverism, withdrew his candidacy for the U. S. Senate in favor of Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, venerable Hoover leader. The Thompson withdrawal meant little in itself since the Thompson candidacy looked hopeless against Mr. Burton, who has been a distinguished Senator before now (1905-15). But the Thompson cry for party harmony ("which I prize more...
...laughed at in urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper Ohio, if not the whole continent, by announcing that the Willis Will-to-Win was "a pulsing, throbbing movement that is hourly gaining force throughout the country...
...firm-minded chairman was wanted for the Federal Radio Commission. Through Secretary Hoover, President Coolidge again urged the post on his friend, Carmi Alderman Thompson of Cleveland. Col. Thompson declined. The President had to think of other prim-minded...
...alliterative, the phrase vividly suggests booted, spurred cavalrymen administering Island affairs to the accompaniment of clanking sabres. Such a picture, of course, overlooks the facts that the Filipinos have their own legislature and that a majority of Island administrative offices are held by natives. Still, the 1926 report of Carmi Thompson on the Islands did criticize the "military atmosphere" surrounding the administration, and the many U. S. Army uniforms around Malacanan Palace (seat of the Philippine government) have been no healing sight for sore Filipino eyes...
...essential to a stable existence." Next Step. President Coolidge having, as everyone expected, upheld Governor General Wood in vetoing the plebiscite, the next step is for the U. S. Congress to grant certain governmental and economic reforms which will soothe the independence agitation. These reforms were suggested in Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report (TIME, Jan. 3)-which, among other things, hinted that Governor General Wood's "cavalry cabinet" is the storm centre of Filipino dissatisfaction. (The "cavalry cabinet" is a group of Army officers who act as advisors and administrators for the Governor General...