Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wedding Anniversary. Carter Henry Harrison, 77, son of the Chicago mayor murdered in his fifth term during the 1893 World's Fair, himself five times Chicago's mayor, and Edith Ogden Harrison; their 50th; in Chicago. Said spry Mr. Harrison, who nightly takes a drink: "Family spats . . . add spice to married life, provided they are not allowed to go too far." Asked his wife's age, he replies: "She never gives the same one twice...
...event, when Joe Kennedy and his wife, daughter of Boston's onetime Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald, arrive in London with a quorum of their nine children, an old tradition of U. S. diplomacy will have been broken: for the first time in history, a U. S. Ambassador to Britain will be 1) Irish and 2) Catholic. Career Man. Ambassador William E. Dodd's departure from Berlin has long been foreshadowed by his open, undiplomatic detestation of Nazi methods, which reached its climax last summer, when he publicly protested against the State Department's granting of permission...
...glossy little brochure touting the industrial advantages of his bailiwick, Mayor Frank Hague boasts that "an outstanding feature of Jersey City has been the stability of its municipal administration and the fairness of its policy toward the worker and capital alike." Boss Hague has been mayor for nearly a quarter-century and lately declared without conscious exaggeration: "I am the law." It so happened that Boss Hague was addressing a gathering of church-going constituents on juvenile delinquency when he dropped that Bourbon remark, but it has plagued him ever since in connection with his conception of "fairness...
...Mayor Hague expressing concern over the reports of "wholesale arrest and deportation. . . ." It looked, said the Congressmen, as if "officials of your administration acting under blanket orders" were denying labor its constitutional rights. Back to Montana's Congressman Jerry J. O'Connell, one of the signers and a personal friend of Boss Hague, went an answer the same...
...Give the boys my regards. Leave everything to me and don't worry. Yours very truly, Mayor Frank Hague "P.S.-Because of the importance of this communication, and because I feel that it would be very beneficial to you and your twenty-five associates in their respective districts, I would suggest that you have it inserted in the Congressional Record...