Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holding no television broadcasting license. Educator-Entrepreneur Evans carries his pictures from M. I. T.'s second-story studio to its street-level showroom by wire. Amateur talent on the first show included Boston's Mayor Maurice Joseph Tobin. Professional performers will be hired only if the box office take is large enough to pay salaries. President Evans does not expect his theatre to survive Boston's first curiosity to see television pictures. Said he: "I've always practiced the reduction of ideas to practice...
...Mayor H. A. Stewart and his City Council did not want a Fascist convention held -in their city, called out the police to prevent it. Defiantly, Leader Arcand slipped 45 of his leaders into a room near Police Headquarters, held forth unmolested for five-and-a-half hours. Upon emerging, Leader Arcand wired thanks to the mayor for "courtesy extended," announced the formation of a new National Unity Party. A flaming torch will be the new party's emblem, "Canada for the Canadians" its slogan, the upraised arm its salute and "King, Country and Christianity" its program...
...Fair's Federal Building, he said with a twinkle in his eye: "The master mason certifies that the cornerstone is well and truly laid and in return I have assured him that I hold a union card.''* There, accompanied by his dumpty little Fusion Republican friend, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, he also had the experience of being introduced to 20,000 delegates of the National Education Association (see p. 28) by a lady no less well known than himself: his wife. All three of them enjoyed the occasion mightily...
...teacher tossed a firecracker at the American Legion (see col. 2). At an opening session, New York University's short, blunt Professor Alonzo Franklin Myers proposed that U. S. teachers discuss with their pupils, as study materials on dictatorship, the recent testimony of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague on suppressing opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names, the N. E. A. delegates became even more uncomfortable (though some cheered) when Professor Goodwin Watson, of Columbia's Teachers College, praised the cooperative achievements of Soviet Russia and sneered at New York City's World...
Died. Andrew James Peters, 66, one-time U. S. Representative from Massachusetts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Democratic Mayor of Boston during its great 1922 police strike; of pneumonia; in Boston...