Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime John L. Lewis personally called off his 40,000 coal miners, Colonel Janeway disarmed Mayor Shields's vigilantes and Johnstown settled down to its first taste of martial law since the 1889 flood. C.I.O. picket lines, now unnecessary, were withdrawn. Despite Mayor Shields's cry of "usurpation," Colonel Janeway took over full police powers where they touched on the strike, sending the local police back to their beats or traffic posts. Otherwise the civil authority was not disturbed...
...Monroe's Mayor Mr. Hoffman flashed an offer to "bring a group of peaceably inclined but armed and well-equipped reliable citizens to aid you in defense of your city." This seemed imperative, said the Congressman, in view of the "yellow streak" evidenced by Michigan's Governor Murphy. To his secretary back home he wired: "Have reliable citizens who are willing to go to Monroe . . . leave name, address, telephone number, list of arms, tents, and cots at office. Have Carl [his son] locate 200 rounds twelve-gauge No. 1 chilled [shot] 100 rounds 30-30 automatic." Mr. Hoffman...
...coat tails. Last week for the first time Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party, under the leadership of bespectacled Governor Elmer A. Benson, went to the polls without the aid of either of the gifted leaders who heretofore have aided it. Minneapolis was holding an election for Mayor...
Republicans had nominated a case-hardened politician, George E. Leach, Mayor of Minneapolis from 1921 to 1929, whose administration was marked by gambling scandals. Farmer-Laborites, after a split among themselves which eliminated their present Mayor, Thomas E. Latimer, nominated Kenneth Clair Haycraft, 1928 All-America end at the University of Minnesota. Young and inexperienced, End Haycraft did his best against a shrewder oldster. But when the votes were counted, Mayor Leach was in by a majority of some 17,000 votes. On its first independent try since it was orphaned, the once victorious Farmer-Labor Party was ditched...
...Mayor Harold Hitz Burton of Cleveland ('09). . . . . LL.D...