Word: dickmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burly head of Bernard Francis ("Barney") Dickmann, the enterprising bachelor realtor who is St. Louis' mayor until at least April 6 (municipal election day), last week literally was in a smoky fog, and had been there for many winter weeks. The murk over St. Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier...
...last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...
...your issue of April 17 you state that Bernard "F. Dickmann was elected mayor of the city of St. Louis, but "The St. Louis Democracy's victory . . . was far from complete" and further ''Republicans retained a majority on the board of aldermen...
...only Republican elected was Louis Nolte, the candidate for comptroller. There were 14 aldermen elected and they were all Democrats. There were two Democrats elected aldermen last November, giving the Democrats a majority of 16 of the 28 aldermen composing the Board. And I might also state that Mr. Dickmann is going to be the best mayor St. Louis has ever...
Last week for the first time in 24 years, St. Louisans elected a Democratic Mayor. Victorious candidate was Bernard Francis Dickmann, 44, bachelor realtor. A grey-haired, ruddy-faced, wisecracking good-timer. Mayor-elect Dickmann is president of the City Real Estate Exchange. A party worker for 20 years, he had never before run for office...