Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enemies. Nearly one-third of Mr. Lewis' speech was reserved for the enemies he acquired during the strike in "Little Steel," particularly Chicago's Mayor Kelly, whose policemen he said killed ten workers in the Memorial Day massacre at a Republic Steel plant. Conspicuously missing from the Lewis speech was any reference to Steelman Tom Girdler, on whom Mr. Lewis usually lavishes his fine talent for invective. Reason: on the advice of Columbia Broadcasting lawyers he deleted his sulphurous remarks about Mr. Girdler.* Also toned down were some of the phrases about Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke...
...coming year was Oklahoma's Scott P. Squyres, a jovial World War veteran professing Indian descent. On the speakers' list with headline peace material were such names as New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, New York's Governor Lehman, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee. Getting in his political oar, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg declared. "It is none of our business, as neutrals, what the effect of our neutrality will be upon anybody but ourselves...
...madly careening trucks that caused almost as much damage as shell fire. U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell, British Admiral Sir Charles Little, backed by the French naval commander, devised joint proposals which they sent to their Consuls General who in turn presented them to Shanghai's Chinese Mayor, toothy O. K. (for nothing) Yui and Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa. For the protection of foreigners in the International Settlement, one demanded that all Japanese warships drop downstream below the China Merchants Lower Wharf, that Chinese soldiers retire simultaneously south of Yangtsepoo Creek. No hint of what action Britain...
Meantime 100 mi. south in Peiping, captured month ago by Japan, Chinese Mayor Chiang Chao-sung was submissively taking his orders from, Tokyo. Wily Japanese scheme for China's former "Northern Capital" was to reintroduce the Confucian rites of the old Imperial Court. Under the nationalist regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Christian, Wellesley-educated wife, Confucianism has practically disappeared from China, but there are many conservative Chinese who resented the change. In 1932 the Japanese found it a shrewd move to restore Confucian worship when they established the new state of Manchukuo where the population...
...mayor of Peiping was ready to do Japan's bidding, prepared for a Gilbert-&-Sullivan ceremony in the Confucian Hall of Perfection, rounded up 80 orphans to bleat traditional Confucian music, to watch him kowtow nine times to China's sage...