SCATHING ATTACK
CHICAGO’S EX-MAYOR NEWSPAPER’S VALEDICTORY CHICAGO, April 8. “Big Bill’ Thompson, who leaves office on Friday when the Hew Mayor, Mr. Cermak, will be sworn in, receives tiie following editorial comment from the Chicago Tribune : “It is an unpleasant business to catch a skunk, hut one does it. For Chicago, Thompson has meant filth, corruption, obscenity, idiocy and bankruptcy. He has given the city an international reputation for moronic buffoonery, barbaric crime, triumphant hoodlumism, unchecked graft and dejected citizenship. He has nearly ruined 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17439, 10 April 1931, Page 7
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