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...Boston Common, Mayor Curley administered an oath to school children: "I promise as a good American citizen to do my part for the NRA. I will buy where the Blue Eagle flies." At Ossining, N. Y., Sing Sing inmates got a holiday when 100 of their guards marched in the local demonstration. The Tulsa parade was led by Mrs. Samuel L. Johnson, General Johnson's 77-year-old mother, who had addressed a NRA rally night before. Said she: "People had better obey the NRA because my son will enforce it like lightning, and you can never tell when...
John Clarence Cudahy of Milwaukee to be Ambassador to Poland, a post declined by Boston's Mayor Curley. Tall, good-looking Ambassador Cudahy is a son of the late great Meatpacker Patrick Cudahy. Lawyer, soldier, big game hunter, author, he manages the Cudahy family fortune...
...Washington fortnight ago trooped twoscore mayors of twoscore debt-ridden cities, all looking for Federal loans (TIME, June 5). Led by Boston's Curley, a delegation called on President Roosevelt, on Governor Black of the Federal Reserve, on Chairman Jones of R. F. C., on Vice President Garner, on Speaker Rainey. All they got was sympathy. The President was opposed to lending money to municipalities because 1) demand might quickly soar to ten billion dollars, 2) local governments would have to surrender their independence to Washington...
Boston's Curley, Milwaukee's Hoan, Houston's Holcombe, New Orleans' Walmsley, Akron's Sparks, Cleveland's Miller. Bridgeport's Buckingham, Elizabeth's Williams. Salt Lake City's Marcus, Providence's Dunne. Newark's Ellenstein, Jersey City's Hague. Rochester's Oviatt. Yonkers' Loehr, Nashville's House, Worcester's Mahoney and a score more mayors of a score more U. S. cities trooped into the Chinese Room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one sizzling hot day last week. They took off their coats...
...Congress, the resolution de clared: "A grave crisis threatens. . . . Municipal credit is about to collapse . . . municipal bonds are held by ... widows and orphans . . . the 65.000.000 people who live under our care. . . . We did not cause the depression. . . . We warn you ... city of the government. rapidly . . ." approaching collapse of Mayor Curley put back on his coat, clapped on his hat and, piling into a taxi with Mayors Hoan, Holcombe and Walmsley, ordered: ''To the White House." For 15 minutes President Roosevelt listened sympathetically to his callers, promised them nothing, advised them to go to the Treasury. Thither they drove...