Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should know that Mayor Houde, who seems in the past year to have become TIME-worthy, "wowed" Their Majesties. Antic: opening conversation at the banquet here by studying, as he sat between them, a list of conventions prepared for him which included the one that he must not open the conversation...
Question-of-the-hour put by Roosevelt loyalists to their fellow Democrats is: "Do you oppose a third term for the President? When it reached resilient Maury Maverick-the super-New-Dealer who, defeated for re-election to the House, snapped back last month as mayor of San Antonio-the question bounced. "I think," said Maury Maverick, "that I'm against a fourth term, and I know I'm against a fifth...
...market place and began-a house-to-house search for the culprit. A reward of 100,000 Czech crowns ($3,330) was offered for information leading to arrest of the killer. One thousand Czechs were arrested; an unnamed nurse, whom Czechs called a "great patriot," was questioned. The Czech mayor of Kladno was supplanted by a German commissar and, to cap it all, the Nazis levied a fine of 500,000 crowns ($16,650) on the district. Most of the money, they added, would be taken from Jews and "followers" of Eduard Benes, former President of Czecho-Slovakia...
...Also the birthplace of the late Anton J. Cermak, mayor of Chicago, assassinated in Florida six years ago. There also Czechoslovakia's first and revered President, Thomas G. Masaryk, made his first political speech...
...York parents were shocked. Soon parents, teachers, Mayor LaGuardia, the Board of Estimate and the City Council demanded that Governor Lehman call the Legislature into special session to restore the $5,300,000 it had pared from State aid to the city's schools. Meanwhile 1,500 teachers marched to Board of Education headquarters on Park Avenue. And up & down before the Republican State Committee's offices in 42nd Street marched Charles Hinckley, 5, and Jill Hinckley, 3, leading a procession of 150 school children. Charles carried a sign: "WE WANT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN." His followers chanted...