M'ANDREW CASE
PRO-BRITISH PROPAGANDA
COURT OVERRULES DISMISSAL
(Received 20th December, 2 p.rj.)
CHICAGO, 19th December, (sustaining a writ of certiorari superior, Judge Pam held that the former school superintendent, William M'Andrew, was not guilty of insubordination and that the "America first" charges were illegally prosecuted before the School Board which ousted Mr. M'Andrew during Mayor Thompson's antiBritish activities in Chicago.
On 21st March, 1928, the Mayor of Chicago, Mr. William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson won his six months' fight against "pro-British propaganda," when the Chicago Board of Education resolved by ;s votes to 2 to remove William M'Andrew, Superintendent of Schools, from his position. The board held that all the charges of pro-British propaganda were sustained, throughout.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 12
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117M'ANDREW CASE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 12
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