Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the office of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague one day last week marched New Jersey's Governor-Elect, A. Harry Moore. "Mayor," said Mr. Moore, "this is your birthday and I always come to extend congratulations. Today I thought that in extending my congratulations I could make no better gift than to offer you the United States Senatorship to succeed...
...Post and the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, which were last week running featured Frank Hague series. Among the facts dug up from old investigations was that John Milton was Frank Hague's personal banker. John Milton's checks, for instance, paid for the $6,250-per-year mayor's $125,000 estate. The mayor always reimbursed his lawyer in cash. When investigators started to probe John Milton's own affairs, he blandly declared that he had just decided to retire and had unfortunately destroyed all his records. Then he laughed...
Said New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "Take the patriotic approach. . . . The nation has an interest in every expectant mother because her child may be a boy. Even if it isn't, it at least is the potential mother of future boys...
Died. J. Waddy Tate, 66, onetime (1929-31) mayor of Dallas, Texas; after brief illness; in Dallas. In the 1927 mayoralty campaign, Tate wore blue overalls, carried a fishing rod, lost; but two years later he spent only $218 campaigning, bought frankfurters for 10,000 voters, won hands down...
Modern U. S. social workers play up environment, play down inheritance. But they still believe as strongly as Victorians in the therapeutic value of good reading. Last week New York's Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia issued an annotated list-of 277 books, grouped according to school grades, to be read in future by children whose misdeeds land them in the New York City Children's Court. Costing about $390, the full library contains 19 fairy stories, 81 adventure tales, 85 biographies of human and animal heroes, miscellaneous books on civics, history, hobbies, religion, etiquette. The list contains such...