Word: mayor
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Half of Illinois lives in Chicago and half lives "downstate," and the unwillingness of the twain to meet has made Illinois politics as unpredictable to the experts of the Roosevelt regime as to most of their predecessors. In 1932 the Chicago Democratic machine of Mayor Edward J. Kelly and old Boss Patrick A. Nash reached out to help Downstater William. H. Dieterich of Beardstown beat Downstater Scott W. Lucas of Havana for the U. S. Senate. Since then downstate has acquired an efficient political boss in the person of bald, forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate...
...Leftist Government last week fired its Navy's Chief Political Commissar Bruno Alonso, also fired all political commissars appointed by him to keep an eye on the politics of Leftist sailors at the Cartagena base. The mayor of Barcelona announced that the Leftist capital has now been raided 23 times, the Rightists having dropped 528 bombs which wholly or partly destroyed 863 buildings, killed 918 persons, wounded 2,549 sufficiently for them to receive recorded treatment...
Under a pert caricature of New York City's explosive Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at the art show of the Columbia University faculty appeared...
...really amazing fellow Is our Mayor, the good Fiorello-When his views are sought He expresses each thought By emitting a furious bellow...
When Philadelphia's hard-bitten Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was prevented from spending $70,000,000 for a nitration plant, he angrily called the city's drinking water "filtered filth!" But when Dr. Haven Emerson, lanky, zealous Manhattan authority on public health, swooped into Philadelphia last week and whooped: "The water supply here is worse than that of any other large city in the country," then Mayor Wilson, just out of sickbed, roared: "Sniping...