Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayors, it would seem, are definitely misleading persons. When the mayors of 84 towns and cities in Massachusetts met in Boston last Saturday and tried to be coherent on the matter of the $100,000,000 public works program sponsored by Governor-elect James M. Curley, the impression they gave to gentlemen of the metropolitan press was remarkable in its many-sidedness...
...occurred to you that if Chicago's Negro Congressman-Elect Mitchell is a native of Alabama, and has a little common sense, and "would not keep thinking about the fact that" he "was colored," there is not likely to be very much racial embarrassment...
...Cheney, New York State Senator, a Republican but an old friend; Eugene R. Black, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve (see p. 53); Chairman Frank McNinch and Vice Chairman Basil Manly of the Federal Power Commission; David Lilienthal of TVA; Morris L. Cooke of the National Resources Board; Governors-elect Bibb Graves of Alabama and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina; Governors Talmadge of Georgia and Sholtz of Florida; Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, who after a four-hour conference jointly declared against the Bonus, for a balanced "normal" budget, with no new taxes next year; President...
...swank clientèle moved slowly up the Island of Manhattan, Lord & Taylor's followed. In the 1850's the store was on Grand Street, where the "carriage trade" rolled smartly up to its doors. When the President-elect visited the city in 1861, the World reported: "A large bow window at Lord & Taylor's well-known establishment was entirely filled with ladies. ... As Mr. Lincoln was passing they rose en masse, waved their cambric welcome and gave utterance to as hearty cheers as are often heard from a broader-chested and stronger-lunged people...
Died. Frederick Landis, 62, only Republican Congressman-elect from Indiana, journalist, novelist, brother of Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; of pneumonia; in Logansport...