Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years has been, occupied by James John Walker (48). Mayor Walker (he is addressed never as "Your Honor" but as "Mister Mayor," like ''Mister President") last week laid a public school corner stone at Coney Island, broke ground for a new subway, endorsed National Hospital Day, held his 6-year-old nephew Paul Burke on his knee at City Hall while the lad was publicly immunized against diphtheria to the boom of flashlights, prepared to attend the Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next...
...money can buy. As William F. Kenny was ready to give his last of a multi-million nickels to help his friend Alfred Emanuel Smith, so Publisher Paul Block (Newark Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard Union, Toledo Blade, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Duluth Herald) seldom counts the change where his friend. Mayor Walker, is concerned. The Mayor spends more nights and mornings in the Block suite at the Ritz than he does in his personal bed on St. Luke's place...
...City of New York pays its mayor $25,000 per annum-not much, considering the requirements of a sprightly person like Mayor Walker. In addition he gets a leather-lined Locomobile town car bearing the license plate Wi. Last week he ruminated more or less confidentially to a trusted group of newsmen to this effect...
...does not enjoy being Mayor any more, so he has not made up his mind about accepting renomination. Run for Governor? Not on a bet! Senator? Ah! (Here his twisted smile)-there is a nice job. But New York already has two Democratic Senators firmly embedded in their red-leather chairs at Washington. He has business offers (here his feline pacing), plenty of them. William Randolph Hearst wants him to write a syndicated daily article in the manner of Will Rogers. Though a late riser and no outdoor sportsman, he is ready to endorse anything from alarm clocks to golf...
...three years the City Hall has seen Mayor Walker, seldom before the pigeon-splashed city clock has marked noon. Since the day Governor Smith singled him out of the State Senate for Job No. 3, much water has gone under political bridges. But Mayor Walker, though he was once president of Silver King Water Co. ("A Good Mixer"), is not the kind to care where the water goes...