Word: mayor
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...Manhattan's largest, Priest McGlynn first irritated his superiors by opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth as it is done in Heaven...
With 385 precinct out of 388 reporting, Maurice J. Tobin seemed certain to receive the election of Mayor of Boston as this paper went to press at 2 o'clock this morning. Tobin polled 103,059 votes, former Governor James M. Curley 81,034, Malcolm E. Nichols...
Almost certain to be contested, the final returns of the mayoralty election for Cambridge gave Mayor John D. Lynch the slight plurality of 171 votes over John W. Lyons. At request of both candidates four police officers were stationed, at the polls last night by Governor Hurley...
...York, Incumbent Florello H. LaGuardia was returned to office as mayor. Democrat, Jeremiah T. Mahoney conceded the election at 10 o'clock last night...
Fortnight ago the colleges had undergone a less heralded but more significant change, the advent of a new administration. City College is ruled by a Board of Higher Education of 21 members, who are appointed by the Mayor for nine-year terms. For 20 years board and college had been ruled by Tammany Hall. Since 1934 Fusion Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had made inroads on this regime by appointing nine members to vacancies. But when three more terms expired last June, and one of his appointees resigned, the Mayor, on the verge of transferring control of higher education from Tammany...