Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moon-faced mayor of Tsingtao, Admiral Shen Hung-lieh of the insignificant Chinese Navy, at first did his best to have Chinese looters shot on sight, and numerous corpses accumulated in front of Japanese shops. Later as the mayor's authority crumbled, and as maddened...
...Mercy Hospital, had slid from being one of the richest men in China into bankruptcy when Chinese looted and burned his properties, believing him to be pro-Japanese. Philanthropist Lo headed the recently organized Shanghai Civic Association, suspected of being a Japanese-inspired group which wanted to make him mayor. Another of its members, Yung Tsung-ching, "The Flour King of China," said last week: "One cannot ride a two-headed horse and get anywhere. It is tragic, but true, that China today is virtually without a Government. During times like these citizens must fearlessly take charge of the situation...
Shoemakers' humor is seldom subtle, but Welles has augmented his troupe with accomplished actors who perform the thwacking horseplay in fine style. As the ruddy little Crispin who becomes Lord Mayor of London, Whitford Kane personifies all the industry, sanity and lustiness of a jolly beefeater. Marian Warring-Manley as his good wife, Margery, waddles it like all the Wives of Bath and Mistress Quicklys who have dedicated their big bosoms and broad buttocks to England's earthy spirit...
...just the kind of irreverent, ready-witted jack-of-all-trades whose presence with the New Deal in Washington since 1933 both businessmen and old-line politicians have found irritating. An amateur politician, he was once the sole Democrat in the Wyoming Legislature and served a term as mayor of his home city of Laramie. A stout New Dealer, he has worked for his friend Jerome Frank as Assistant General Counsel of AAA, for his friend Bill Douglas as trial examiner for the SEC, for his friend Robert H. Jackson as a special consultant in the Department of Justice...
Died. Newton Diehl Baker, 66, lawyer, scholar, Woodrow Wilson's peace-loving Wartime Secretary of War who organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies...