Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this business group would presumably have access to the Mayor's office. These businessmen would receive no salary from the city; their services would be donated by their companies as an act of public service...
...Tribune to act in an advisory capacity at City Hall, and Mr. Patterson is busy with the weekly Liberty and New York Daily News and with extended airplane cruises (TIME, Jan. 14). It was recalled, last week, that the maternal grandfather of these men, Joseph Medill. was elected Mayor in 1871, running, after the great fire, on a "Fireproof ticket. Among other possible candidates, Hale Holden, railroader, has more than local interests, and Richard Crane (Crane valves) is only a part-time Chicagoan. A great Chicago enterprise is International Harvester Co.. but its present head, Alexander Legge (TIME...
...Mayor James J. Walker, of Manhattan, was presented a bat by certain denizens of the Panama Canal Zone with the request that he give the bat to famed baseball player Babe Ruth. The bat, made out of a lignum-vitae railroad tie, was four ounces over weight. Babe Ruth last week in a Manhattan gymnasium boxed famed musician Paul Whiteman...
...sweetheart, Lottie Kaufman, in the Temple, and shortly afterward quit furs and bought a penny arcade in Manhattan. Later, when he had shown a profit running "Hale's Tours," one of William A. Brady's projects, he went home to Ricse for a visit and was received by the Mayor and the Town Council...
Last night, Mayor Nichols declined to name any of the board members, although he said their decision would be announced tomorrow; neither did he say whether the members were policemen or dramatists. This board may deliver an ultimatum as to certain lines which must be cut before presentation, or it may refuse to allow the play in Boston on any conditions...