Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, where it was deemed wise to provide protection for the German consulate, Mayor LaGuardia stole a leaf from the late, great Roosevelt I. While Police Commissioner of New York, T. R. once had to provide police protection for an anti-Semitic German preacher. He did so by delegating Jewish policemen to keep order. Last week Mayor LaGuardia appointed an all-Jewish detachment of police under command of Captain Max Finkelstein to guard the German consulate and escort distinguished Nazi visitors through the city...
Federal Judge William Clark recently dusted off Mayor Hague by specifically enjoining him to let C.I.O. organizers (and other dissenters from the established Hague order) speak, solicit members, carry placards and otherwise exercise their Constitutional rights in Jersey City. Politico Lewis declared it high time to throw all Hagues out of the Democratic Party, to arrange a genuinely liberal political alignment...
...politician was ruddy, chubby Charles A. Harnett, since 1924 State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Tammanyite who introduced a song to celebrate the return from Europe of discredited ex-Mayor James J. Walker. Commissioner Harnett has managed to hold his $10,000 job through Tammany's ups & downs, has been well and favorably known to New York's 3,500,000 licensed drivers...
...Donat J. Levesque, Democratic mayor ot sedate Lewiston. Me., was indicted on a charge of accepting a $200 bribe in connection with the appointment of a city health officer...
...Jersey's supreme court upheld indictments of Meyer C. Ellenstein, Democratic mayor of Newark, N. J., and 29 other persons charged with fraudulent municipal land deals...