Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate seat for his faithful Lieutenant Governor Herman Ekern, the Governor supported Mr. Ekern against Mr. Amlie, although he tactfully refrained from making any speeches. Candidate Ekern trounced Candidate Amlie last week after a bitter Progressive primary, in which Amlie also had the support of Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan. This raised the possibility that when Progressive Ekern brings the La Follette fight on the New Deal into the open against Democratic Senator F. Ryan Duffy in November, the Federation and Governor La Follette may fight...
...week (see p. 11) was only slightly more surprising to its citizens than the results of the Democratic primary vote for Governor, cast the day before. Beaten by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. for the Senate two years ago, beaten last year in a try for a fourth term as Mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley was supposed to be "all washed up." But political weathermen knew that Governor Charles F. Hurley, since he succeeded Mr. Curley in the State House two years ago, had been exercising an unusual talent for repelling people and making enemies. His downfall was forecast when...
...When the welcoming parade was over, Douglas Corrigan had his appraisal ready: "What? . . . only two hours and fifteen minutes. ... In Kansas City the parade was two hours and forty minutes." Down at the Hall Corrigan got a shiny gold medal. "This is a pretty good medal," he vouchsafed to Mayor Frank L. Shaw. Then he added: "Some of the others were better...
...parson uncle, the Rev. S. Fraser Langford. Stories about him "teaching me navigation and me living in his home are a lot of hooey. . . . The guy . . . started sending me cables to appear in ... night clubs, . . . and him a preacher, at that." Day later, at San Francisco City Hall, beside Mayor Angelo Rossi, he noted the Irishmen on the reception committee (Quinn, Riordan, Casey, Murphy, Reilly) : ". . . From the names ... I figured I was back in Ireland. And here I always thought you were all Eyetalians up here." The crowd tittered uncertainly, then Corrigan said his last word: "You came to laugh...
...Manhattanite who wrote him suggesting playgrounds for dogs, New York's scholarly Deputy Mayor Henry Hastings Curran replied: "The city is a hard place for a dog. . . . Cats do better. . . . One of the most beautiful sights in nature is the hindquarters of the common cat upended on the rim of a garbage...