Word: kendrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proud and smiling also will be Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick, who is not only ruler of the ancient city of Philadelphia but also Director of Philadelphia's SesquiCentennial International Exposition. Already he is exclaiming...
...represented. Citizens have subscribed $3,000,000 for the affair and the state has appropriated $750,000; seven or eight other states will erect buildings costing $75,000 to $150,000, and the three Pacific Coast states are planning a joint exhibit and building costing $1,500,000. Mayor Kendrick announced that 170 organizations of many kinds had already arranged to hold their annual sessions at the seat of the exhibition. The official opening is scheduled for June 1. The closing date has not yet been decided on, but it will probably be before cold weather since heating arrangements...
...President Coolidge wrote to Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia: "After having considered the request which you and Senator Pepper laid before me for further extension of the leave of Brigadier General Butler from his duties in the Marine Corps in order that he might continue to serve as head of the Police Department of the City of Philadelphia, I have come to the conclusion that the request ought not to be granted...
...Philadelphia the delegates debarked and were carried to Independence Hall and saw the Liberty Bell and Mayor Kendrick. As they were leaving some Irish Republicans rushed the police guard and almost "got" General Mulcahy, former Minister of the Free State. Afterwards Magistrate Fitzgerald fined one Michael McFadden $13.50, and gave one Daniel O'Rourke 3G days for saying he did not like the U. S. and wanted to go back to Ireland. But the delegates went on to a reception at former Governor Sproul's and then entrained once more, getting to Washington late in the evening...
...Salt Lake City. Last week Senator Stanfield, Chairman of the Senate Land Committee, accompanied by Senators Kendrick of Wyoming and Cameron of Arizona, commenced a hearing at Salt Lake City of cattlemen's grievances against the Department of the Interior, and more especially against its "system of charging fees to stockraisers on the public land...