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...unhinge the door" to the office so that the public could walk freely in upon him. Last week Mr. Dore, a stocky, florid criminal lawyer, got a chance to make good his promise when the citizens of Seattle chose him for Mayor over Robert H. Harlin, incumbent, by a record-breaking majority vote. Born & bred in Massachusetts, Mayor-elect Dore went West 20 years ago, learned his law by lamplight while reporting police news for Seattle newspapers. Clever, sarcastic, affable, he has made a reputation as one of the smartest defense attorneys in the Northwest. Married, father of three daughters...
...maintenance & repairs. Most famed of Philadelphia's recent Safety Directors was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, who tried to dry up the city. In 1928 aggressive, door-smashing Lemuel B. Schofield was appointed following a grand jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped would find other things to do than "being a captain of police to lead raids or a fire chief to rush to fires." New appointee is Kern Dodge, 51, socialite, consulting engineer. Never a politician...
Still smarting under the Mayor-elect's jibe, retiring Director Schofield among his last acts dismissed 228 policemen and promoted one patrolman to sergeant. That one was Charles P. Lang, whom Secretary Charles Francis Adams of the Navy dismissed from the Naval Reserve for wearing a U. S. uniform while making a liquor raid last July. "Lang," explained Mr. Schofield, "was made a martyr in the Navy and despite an honorable career was dismissed ... by a misguided and egotistic little whiffet...
...Last week he was succeeded by Mayor-Elect Howard Wilkinson Jackson. †According to Who's Who the Bakers were married Aug. 7, 1910. *Mayor Porter exhibited ignorance. The 18th Amendment does not forbid drinking of liquor legally acquired...
...from the G. O. P. last week. In a tepid municipal election, Democrat Howard Wilkinson Jackson was chosen Mayor by a record-breaking majority of 63,000 votes, which sent Republican Nominee William Albrecht back to bookbinding. Mr. Jackson served as the city's chief executive from 1923 to 1927, was called the "best Mayor Baltimore ever had" by four-time Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie. A farm boy who went to Baltimore and built up a large insurance business, Mayor-elect Jackson, now 54, is a genial, handshaking politician who asks every stranger his first name and calls...