Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water-closet scandal was just one splash in a whirlpool of trouble which recently engulfed husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes, who eight years ago became the biggest political frog in Waterbury. Mayor of Waterbury, he also became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and, though honest old Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, onetime dean of Yale's Graduate School, was too spry ever to let him get his hand on the highest State controls, he presided over the Senate in a style which, his accusers said, was lucrative as well as lordly...
Last week New York City's hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia was belaboring the Nazis of Germany with his customary vigor-and so, less loudly and more indirectly, was handsome Anthony Eden, who had just arrived in the U. S. from England (see p. 9). Few days later another blast at Nazi and Fascist ideology came from a quarter which has hitherto been relatively silent-U. S. science...
Among the honorary pall-bearers will be: President Lowell, Maurice J. Tobin, Mayor of Boston, Leverett Saltonstall, Governor-elect, James Ford, associate professor of Social Ethics, Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin, and Gustavus B. Maynadier, assistant professor of English emeritus...
...that he had passed his New York bar examination, was overwhelmed by congratulations from his friends. Then he was notified that it had all been a mistake- he had failed. Ashamed, he hid the fact, rapidly became a successful criminal lawyer. Recently he asked New York City's Mayor LaGuardia for appointment as a magistrate. Last week, after an investigation, he was indicted...
...mayor of Crosnes, a village near Paris, France, issued a decree forbidding the dogs of his commune to bark from...