Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Clark's court at Newark, the trial of Boss Hague ran through its third week. Besides being New Jersey's Democratic boss and Jersey City's mayor, Frank Hague is Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which gratefully accepted $270,000 from C.I.O.'s cornerstone, the United Mine Workers of America, for its 1936 campaign. Alert C.I.O. Lawyer Morris Ernst asked Vice Chairman Hague if he would repudiate, for example, the C.I.O. supporters of Democratic Senator Alben Barkley in Kentucky, of Democratic Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan...
...Mayor Hague: "I would...
...first National Exhibition of American Art, held two years ago, and sponsored by Mayor LaGuardia's New York Municipal Art Committee, flopped flat. Almost its only distinction was that it brought to Manhattan more canvases than any show that season. When the second opened last year with 526 pictures and statues, critics were agreeably surprised, found the general level of painting higher, a few pieces outstanding, their subjects of coast-to-coast diversity. Last week, in the spacious galleries of the Fine Arts Society, the third National Exhibition turned out to be the best...
...Hitlerism. With this parting blast at Government-in-Radio, Temporary President Ethridge retired to devote all his time to running the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times and Station WHAS. Appointed to succeed him as mouthpiece of the industry was another Louisvillian: Neville Miller, 44, who gained national prominence as mayor of the city during the 1937 flood, has served lately as assistant to President Harold Willis Dodds of Princeton. His new salary...
...year of Yale," then joined the family company to be groomed as his father's successor. But Frank Dan was dictatorial and standpat. Elisha progressive and pushing; they got along like cat and dog. In 1925. Frank Dan, just defeated by Jimmy Walker for the job of mayor of New York, went back hurt and angry to the job Elisha was all set to take over. Their row on policy was terrific; they never spoke to each other again...