Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came last week to Victor Louis Berger, famed Milwaukee Socialist. Twenty-two days prior he had eluded an automobile, run afoul of a street car, suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs. His body lay in state in the Milwaukee City Hall. Municipal offices were closed the day of his funeral. He it was who had nursed Wisconsin Socialism from a pink Fauntleroy to a ruddy, vote-mighty brawnyman...
...four years in city hall represent the Silly Season in American city government...
...through the lobby of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, holding a handkerchief to his cheek. An observer said, "There goes the Mayor, looking half shot." An excitable woman heard, saw the handkerchief, started a report that the Mayor had been shot. Two hours later the Mayor arrived at the City Hall, explained to a frantic horde of reporters that the reason for the handkerchief had been three bad teeth, to be extracted the next...
...Russian is Joseph P. Day, famed auctioneer, present friend of the Manhattan Democratic organization. It was Mr. Day who bought the Tammany Hall property on 14th Street, who then sold it to the New York Edison Co., and who then turned the profits of the deal over to the new Tammany Hall as a graceful political gesture...
...there that Clarence Hungerford Mackay has been endowing the State University in his father's memory ever since 1908. He gave a School of Mines that year, followed by a series of gifts whose total reached $1,500,000 when, last week, he gave a Mackay Science Hall. Therein Nevada undergraduates will be taught the chemistry, physics and mathematics necessary for admission to Mackay School of Mines...