Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latin lead toward Economic Disarmament. In addition to a return to Free Trade in the not too distant future, Geneva statesmen spoke hopefully of a return to the Gold Standard at present devalued monetary levels. In this they were encouraged by the annual Mansion House speech to the Lord Mayor of London and the city's leading bankers delivered last week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. "The decision of France to readjust the value of the franc," said Mr. Chamberlain, "must have come like the cracking of the ice at the approach of a warmer season...
...press, liberal and conservative, entered indignant protest against Terre Haute's blatant violation of the Constitutional Bill of Rights. For such critics, Terre Haute's Republican Mayor Sam Beecher was ready with an answer. Said he: "Both of the major party Presidential candidates-Mr. Landon and Mr. Roosevelt-recognize Communism as a menace to this nation. Therefore, Communistic speakers are not welcome in Terre Haute...
Because of this peaceful trend, Manila's Mayor Juan Posadas, plump and proud possessor of the title of "Comendador de la Real Orden de Isabel la Católica" conferred upon him by Spain, paid no attention whatever last week when he received an anonymous letter warning him that Manila would burn the following night. The police went to bed and slept as hard as usual. Suddenly in the early hours of the morning there was an explosion. Then another and another. Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb...
...Another summer's adventure occurred when she played at Salzburg for Austria's President Wilhelm Miklas and Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg who pronounced Miss Pessl's Haydn concerto EntzÜckend. Last week Yella Pessl an nounced her present ambition to "shoot" New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia with her minicamera...
Next day as Campbell simmered over that outrage, with Mayor John J. Borak scolding Police Chief Frank Cunningham and Chief Cunningham scolding his men, the Board of Education ended the strike by shushing Superintendent Klinko, promising to look into Instructor Graban's case itself...