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...solemn Aldermen of the City of London are like a pack of cards that is never shuffled. Once a year the top (senior) card is slipped off and becomes Lord Mayor. Cards slipped off in previous years return to the rank of Aldermen, designated forever after as having "passed the civic chair" (i. e. been Lord Mayor). Last week in London's gloomy but impressive Guildhall there was pompous slipping...
Nobody stirred. All the Aldermen are "Liverymen" - representatives of London's ancient Guilds. The top card, as always, was the Senior Alderman who has served as Sheriff of the City of London, this year Alderman Charles Henry Collett...
...cried all Liverymen present, but this shout did not stop the Common Sergeant. He read off the names of all eligible Aldermen...
...comprehensive program than the mere infliction of additional taxes upon an already overtaxed community." They proposed that the bankers, the city and the Governor of New York meet to work out a real solution. Lawyer Untermyer. replying for Mayor O'Brien, accepted the proposal. Meantime the Board of Aldermen rubber-stamped Mr. Untermyer's taxes; only the Mayor's signature was needed to put them into effect...
...would have none of General O'Ryan. Last week after weeks of bickering the Fusionists finally agreed on a candidate for the nation's No. 3 elective office. No neophyte in Manhattan's politics, Fiorello (Little Flower) Henry La Guardia was President of the Board of Aldermen 13 years ago, was the fiery little Republican candidate whom Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker defeated in 1929. But in the campaign he charged Tammany with most of the honeyfuggling which Samuel Seabury later proved in his famed probe. Last Autumn Mr. La Guardia, a radical Republican, failed...