Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayor of the French town of Lannoy reminded Mr. Roosevelt by cable last week that "through your mother, Sara Delano" the President is "a descendant of a family that originated in Lannoy and which, around 1600, emigrated to the Netherlands." Offering congratulations, the Mayor of Lannoy declared: "It is not without pride that we have learned of your triumphant re-election!" * Too, Frenchmen know that in Berlin the President has an anti-Nazi envoy, Ambassador William Edward Dodd (TIME...
...city gradually on a pay-as-you-go basis, reduce debt charges and eliminate graft at the expense of property, owners against whom assessments are made for improvements. The New York Merchants' Association, the Citizens' Union, the Community Councils of New York along with Fusion Mayor LaGuardia and civitarians generally gave the new chapter vigorous support. Bitterly Tammany assailed it and redoubled its efforts particularly against a second proposition on the voting machines, providing that members of the new City Council should be elected by proportional representation. Even "bigger-than-Tammany" Al Smith, stout proponent of Charter reform...
...chrysanthemums, five close-up flashlight shots, all accepted breathlessly and with apparent surprise. Loudest applause, no matter what she sang, came from Mary Hague's own guests, among them Husband Hague, Jimmy Durante, George M. Cohan and James J. Walker who, when he was New York's mayor, married Mary Lewis to Basso Bohnen...
...Michigan Senator James Couzens (TIME, Nov. 2) who died intestate; an estimated $30,000,000 to be divided under State law: one-third to Widow Margaret Ann Manning Couzens, two-thirds between his three daughters (Mrs. Madeleine Couzens Yaw, Mrs. Margo Couzens Chewning, Edith Valeria Couzens) and his son Mayor Frank Couzens of Detroit. Federal estate taxes will take some...
...closed the taxi dance halls, so called. That this is but the first move in a drive to clean up Tokio for the Olympic Games visitors in 1940 is proof positive that however much they may themselves believe it, the Japs do not as yet thoroughly understand Western civilization. Mayor Cermak or any other executive who has planned for any American or European World's Fair or exhibition could tell them different...