Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominate New York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia for 1937 Man of the Year because he was the first person ever to tie the bell of doom around the neck of that nine-lived Tammany cat two times...
...picketed for wage increases and several non-union barbershops were mussed up but these were conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
...when both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge had occasion to sleep in its soft beds, the Hamilton had 3,800 members. But Chicago Republicanism struck hard times two full years before the New Deal, when the late Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller...
...British liner Reina del Pacifico, slowly plowing its way south toward Bermuda and a South American cruise, most of the passengers were just finishing a hearty dinner. In London at the same instant most of the political bigwigs of Britain were finishing an even heartier one, the annual Lord Mayor's banquet. Too ill to eat his own was the Reina's most distinguished passenger, James Ramsay MacDonald. At 8:45 he quietly died of heart failure...
...shiny new official Cadillac to take his new office as Chicago's Superintendent of Schools, in the eyes of good government agitators there were two strikes against him. He was Board of Education President James B. McCahey's man, and between McCahey and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly there was too close a partnership to suit watchdogs of Chicago's schools. Board Member Mrs. William S. Hefferan had quoted ten civic leaders: "The precipitous appointment of Dr. Johnson is opposed to leading educational opinion...