Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor T. Frank Hayes is a Democrat, one of the biggest and boldest ever seen in Connecticut. His arrest, along with his controller, Daniel J. Leary, his secretary, Thomas P. Kelley, and several other Waterbury officials, resulted from Mr. Leary's failure (by 33 votes) to get re-elected last year. The Republican who got in soon told the State's Attorney, who told the grand jury, that Hayes, Leary & Co., "a small but powerful, ruthless and corrupt group of men." had been running Waterbury's affairs "for personal financial gain and political advancement" at a cost...
...Secretary of the Interior. If Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago were less absentminded, he might have advised his friend Mr. Ickes months ago to change his residence to Chicago, in time for a court to certify him as eligible to run for Mayor of Chicago. In that event, a lot of work might have been saved the Draft-Ickes-for-Mayor Committee headed by Professor Merriam's colleague, Professor Paul Douglas (TIME...
...Ickes, a onetime Bull Mooser, was to have run, of course, as a New Deal Democrat. His back-out left the field to Mayor Edward J. Kelly and ambitious State's Attorney Tom Courtney. Mayor Kelly visited Washington to see what his chances were for Jim Farley's support...
Onto the stage of Chicago's Medinah Temple, bag-jowled, loud-mouthed William Hale Thompson, thrice Mayor of Chicago and ready to try once more at 69, last week threw his ten-gallon campaign sombrero while friends yowled...
...Bill will be our Mayor again...