Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word that comes hard to New York's Mayor James John Walker. One day last week he was quite incapable of uttering it when a Non-Partisan Committee of 682 New York citizens waited upon him at the City Hall, asked him to stand for reelection...
Mayor Walker was 25 minutes late for the City Hall ceremony. When he arrived, telegrams were stacked before him congratulating him on the acceptance he had not yet given. Mr. Heckscher, wearing a large bow tie, arose, adjusted his spectacles, placed himself before the nest of microphones to read his speech. So faint was his voice that .Mayor Walker had to cup his ears and lean forward. Nominator Heckscher gave "40 indictments" (reasons) why Mayor Walker should be renominated. He praised his administration as "brilliant." recalled the "goodwill" the Mayor had spread by junketing through Europe...
Simultaneously John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, Mayor Walker's voluble predecessor, now an independent candidate for reelection, put in wide circulation an envelope inscribed: "Voter-Who killed Rothstein and Marlow?" A card inside replied: "Send Hylan back to City Hall. Send Enright back to Police Headquarters. They may find...
...Honor Dawes had turned up at the luncheon-tendered by the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland-wearing a "tropic weave" grey business suit of hard, aggressive cut. Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in correctest English morning clothes. The setting was hoar, historic Vintners' Hall, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sombre, immemorial citadel of England's solemn wine trade. To talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most Englishmen utterly impossible. Yet soon the 2,000,000 readers of London...
...draughty Moscow public dining hall a group of 99 U. S. tourists licked up grey beluga caviar last week, wryly gulped throat-scorching vodka. A band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." The tourists, clearing their throats, joined in the chorus. "It was the first time," opined the Associated Press, "that 'The Star-Spangled Banner' had been played in Moscow since the War." The day was the eleventh anniversary of the assassination by Soviet executors of Tsar Nicholas...