Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Father John O'Grady of Washington, D. C., who was in New Orleans when the strike began and tried unsuccessfully to mediate, succeeded at last after consultations in Manhattan with William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and with officials of the Public Service Co., and local union leaders...
...serves for 34 years in the minor offices of a city government is lucky when he dies if he receives a stick of type in a local newspaper. But when Michael J. Pendergast, the peak of whose official career was to be City Clerk of Kansas City, Mo., died last week he re- ceived sticks of type across the continent and many politicians said, "Poor Mike...
Boss Tom Pendergast is a character. Chief proprietor of the "Ready-Mixed Concrete Co.," he has provided and hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have...
...details as automatic fire sprinkler systems in all buildings. Few concerns would dare contract to build such a city in 15 months. Gigantic specialist, the Austin Co. keeps in stock all essential parts of a carefully standardized line of buildings, is expert at getting these assembled by local labor. Thus only Austin engineers will go to Austingrad and all the actual assembling and construction on the spot will be done by Russians. From the founding of the company in 1904 it has sloganed: "Undivided Responsibility"-the idea that every phase of constructing a factory, an airport or a city like...
...this bothered Editor Older not at all. Graft was running the railroads, governing Labor, electing city officials. Fearless, ambitious, fight-loving, Editor Older set out to purify San Francisco. His great and good friend Rudolph Spreckels, sugar tycoon, agreed to help him. They found lined up against them potent local powers. Patrick Calhoun, hardheaded, two-fisted president of United Railroads; Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, tall, handsome, the people's idol; Abraham Ruef, a Hebrew Schmitz henchman. "These men are crooks," said Editor Older. "We must prove it," answered Sugarman Spreckels...