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Thomas E. Latimer was preparing for his inauguration as Mayor of Minneapolis (TIME, June 24), when a young man called on him, introduced himself as Ira H. Latimer, Chicago radio news commentator. Brought up under the name of Jenkins by his mother and her second husband, Ira Latimer had long suspected that Thomas Latimer was his father, knew it when he read that Minneapolis' Mayor-elect was born in Hilliard. Thomas Latimer demanded proof, got it. Chief guests at his inauguration last week were his son, daughter-in-law, two-year-old grandson...
Tired of being known only as "Brother Charlie," the late great William Jennings Bryan's brother got himself elected Mayor of Lincoln, Neb. in 1915, went on to become threetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1924. Last week in Lincoln, friends crowded around to congratulate the Mayor-elect. Most of them still call him "Brother Charlie...
...years handsome. 73-year-old Sir Stephen Henry Molyneux Killik. London Alderman, stockbroker, author and Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers, has known that last week he would either be dead or Lord Mayor-elect of that square mile of London called "The City." By venerable tradition the Senior Alderman must be elected Lord Mayor, provided he has served one year as Sheriff of London...
...vote plurality, and a 52,000 majority over his nearest opponent, the biggest ever seen in Montreal. His defeated Liberal opponent complained. "The Houdeist forces had prepared a widespread telegraphing [dummy-voting] and ballot-stuffing machine that worked to perfection. The old gang is back." Mayor-elect Houde's first move was to let it be known that he plans to form a new Conservative party of his own to be called the National Autonomist Party "to protect the interests of cities and towns against rural domination...
...pleased was Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes with the prospects of Mayor-elect LaGuardia's New Deal that he last week allotted a loan & grant of $23.160.000 for New York subway construction...