Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be very much interested to learn the source of information used by you in the Jan. 10 issue of TIME, for we feel that there is a grave error somewhere. You said that Mr. C. D. White, our Mayor, once remarked that only "cheapskates" come to Atlantic City. Our Mayor is entirely too much of a gentleman to refer to any convention as a group of "cheapskates," and most certainly no person in this city in his right mind would so deliberately offend any organization...
...Reader Husselton heed what he reads, Mayor White did not call members of the Allied Social Science Association names. TIME reported that he said the type of visitor attracted by Atlantic City's former press bureau was a "cheapskate...
...After Mayor Hague's great rally, Lawyer Ernst broadcast a rebuttal in which; referring to his Committee for Defense of Civil Liberties in Jersey City, he announced: "I represent those great Communist leaders of the nation, General Hugh Johnson, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann...
Actually in Cleveland during the first six days of the New Year 65,000 people on the relief rolls went without food and clothing orders. This hardship, which caused one reliefer to commit suicide, was due, as Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton explained, to the "inexcusable failure of the State of Ohio" to pass a relief act before the year...
...income. Dion (Tyrone Power), heir to the blarneying ways of his late father, opens a gilded saloon, maneuvers away from Political Boss Gil Warren (Brian Donlevy) his treacle-toned lady, Belle Fawcett (Alice Faye), and his control of votes in the Patch. When these votes elect honest Brother Jack mayor, Dion expects to have things all his own way. Just after he discovers that Jack is a seagreen incorruptible, Daisy kicks the lantern over...