BIG BILL’S EXIT
PAPER’S SCATHING ATTACK. (United Press Association—By,Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CHICAGO, April 8. Tlie retiring. Mayor, Mr Win. Thompson, who leaves office on Friday, when Mr Ceram k will be sworn in, receives the following editorial comment from \Ahe “Chicago' Tribune” : “It is an un--ejileasant business to catch a skunk, but one does it. But for Chicago, Mr Thompson has meant filth, corruption, obscenity, idiocy and bankruptcy. He lias given the city an international reputation for moronic buffoonry, barbaric crime, triumphant hoodlumism, unchecked graft', and dejected citizenship. He has nearly ruined the property, and has completely destroyed the pride of the city. He has made Chicago a by-word for the collapse of American civilisation.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1931, Page 5
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114BIG BILL’S EXIT Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1931, Page 5
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