Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cortes is more than welcomed by the Leftist Government if he has never actually taken up arms against it and last week 170 of the original 473 Deputies gathered in Barcelona. A newcomer, who has never before attended sessions in Leftist territory, was Rightist Deputy Pedro Rico who was Mayor ("The Fattest Mayor in Europe") of Madrid when the war began...
Meanwhile, at Canton last week shots fired at the mayor barely missed him, the governor had to announce that he had not been assassinated, mysterious explosions took place, and apparently a Japanese-fostered coup d'état was nipped, even as Japanese bombers rained Death...
Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, Helen Keller, Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, Boston's onetime Mayor Malcolm Nichols, Glass Manufacturer Raymond Pitcairn, the family of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, the shades of the elder Henry James, the late Financial Publisher Clarence W. Barren all hold one thing in common - a belief in the theological doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. They find solace in the Swedenborgian service, which resembles the Anglican, in the Swedenborgian belief in immediate judgment after death, and they experience exhilaration in contact with one of the most versatile scientific minds the world ever knew. Last...
Died. Edward A. Kenney, New Jersey Congressman since 1933, sponsor in 1934 of a billion dollar national lottery bill; by a six-story fall from the Hotel Carlton, in Washington, few hours after praising Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague at a New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Dinner in the building...
...brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists were far from mollified, Mr. Whalen's plans for correlating art exhibitions on Manhattan Island were described as applesauce, and the artists voted to call on Mayor LaGuardia for help in getting an independent building...