Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Growing out of alleged 'complaints" and "charges" by candidates for public offices that 2000 graduates and undergraduates were illegally on the voting lists, the order for an investigation was reported yesterday to have been made by Mayor John W. Lyons to his chief election commissioner, C. Brendan Noonan...
Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly is not up for re-election until February. But last week his campaign got under way with a handsomely printed 42-page booklet entitled Out of the Red Into the Black, The Truth About Chicago's Municipal Government. Embellished with photographs of Chicago's wonders (including five of Ed Kelly), tables purporting to show that Chicago's per-capita government cost was $53.57 compared to New York's $91.78, Boston's $88.26, it concluded that Chicago "stands in the front rank for economic administration of governmental affairs...
...Kelly Tribune, permitted to scoop its competitors on the Committee's findings, identified it as consisting of "100 representative Chicagoans." The anti-Kelly News, remembering that the mayor invited local bigwigs to join such a committee last June, produced a better scoop. Only 30 had joined and of these 23 had never seen the report. "I didn't attend any meetings," said puzzled President Frank Cunningham of Butler Bros...
...Republican, he is friendly with both Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration in New York City and the Democratic State administration, both of which he serves (as president of the Long Island State Park Commission and City Park Commissioner). No friend, however, of Franklin Roosevelt and Harold Ickes with whose money he built the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Moses is a favorite with Greater New Yorkers. In the last 17 years he has, almost singlehanded, obtained for them more and better parks and parkways than they had obtained in 50 years previous...
...those days British peers, squires and gentlemen were the nearly undisputed masters of the State, and in 1873 Mayor Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham was considered "vulgar." He acknowledged that he was a Radical, and was darkly suspected of being both a socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So disgusted was Punch with the Radical, whom it contemptuously called "Joey," that he was caricatured as a clown, caught in the act of applying a red-hot poker labeled "Socialism" to the behind of a Briton reading the Times with a checkbook under...