Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses went into New Jersey and had a shot at Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You people," he said at Bayonne, "are in the centre of a community dominated by an understudy of Tammany Hall. I cannot understand how you can submit to the domination of a machine that is corrupt, rapacious, unrelenting and unforgiving...
...night that Nominee Smith denounced Whispering at Oklahoma City, Nominee Smith's slim, trig, glib little lieutenant, Mayor James John Walker of New York City, motored under the Hudson River to Newark, N. J. From the platform occupied four nights earlier by Nominee Hoover, came a speech in which Mayor Walker incorporated the following remarks...
...Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia clutched the rostrum of the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church and begged Evangelist "Billy" Sunday to conduct "a great campaign in this city as an antidote to the bootlegger, hijacker and gunman." Mr. Sunday, responding, said the proposition was attractive...
...Mason and an elder of a dominant U. S. church (Presbyterian) ; the man who reigns magisterially over a dominant U. S. industry (cinema). Mr. Hays helped open a "social club" for the cinema trade in Manhattan last week. New York's Mayor, trig, glib James John Walker, was also present. In the course of his speech, Mr. Hays indicated Mayor Walker, grew intense and said...
William V. ("Big Bill") Dwyer, former "king of the bootleggers," reputed boss of $50,000,000 business, upon his return from a compulsory year at Atlanta, was last week elected treasurer of the New York Hockey Club, made one of the directors along with Mayor Walker. To celebrate he gave a dinner for officials of the club and sports writers. The affair was extremely...