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...private cars filled with propaganda rolled out of a Chicago terminal. They held bundles of pamphlets, screeching posters, loud bulletins ablaze with declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight...
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...
Realizing this, the Grand Central Galleries of New York held an exhibition early this summer aboard the Belgenland, showing landscapes, portraits, studies by contemporary U. S. artists (Murray Bewley, Ettore Caser, Gerrit Beneker, Lilian Westcott Hale, Hosvep Pushman, Paul King). Other ships have followed in the wake. The Aquitania became a nautical gallery by bringing to the U. S. Mrs. Dod Proctor's "Morning," the most notable painting in this year's Royal Academy show, for a short visit. The Hamburg-American liner New York exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung...
...Wilson Observatory in California. Mr. Noyes was there the night the new 100-inch telescope was first put into use. The experience started him writing his blank verse epic of science, The Torchbearers. The U. S.'s high rank in pure science was superbly certified when Astronomer George Ellery Hale called his guests and assistants to be the first humans to witness the rising of one of Jupiter's eight moons...
...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...