Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just to keep the record straight, however, and in order to do justice to a friend, may I say that the quotation attributed to me, that Mayor Kelly is "a Charley McCarthy" who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood [but] aside from that . . . hasn't missed a pitch," was in reality written by Milton S. Mayer, Chicago's journalistic Puck and our star writer, in a recent issue of The Beacon. The quotation reflects my sentiments. . . . SYDNEY JUSTIN HARRIS Editor The Beacon Chicago...
...managed to resume their offensive, announced the taking of 2,000 Leftist prisoners, nearly all youths under 20. The Rightists accused their retreating foes of having massacred 100 civilians of Alcala de Chivert before evacuating this town, claimed on entering it to have found the Leftists had burned the mayor alive at a stake...
...when books are banned it is usually by action of municipal authorities, as Boston's mayor once stopped the sale of Dreiser's American Tragedy, or as the mayor of Omaha, Neb. more recently clamped down on Mari Sandoz' Slogum House. In England books that come under official displeasure are usually withdrawn by the publishers; in European dictatorships their circulation is forbidden by the state. Recent book bans...
...Earle, running for the Senate, is opposed by the C.I.O.--supported S. Davis Wilson, Mayor of Philadelphia, who has changed his political affiliation so often that he is compared to the chameleon, with that versatile animal coming out distinctly second-best...
More important than the Governor's personal fortune was the certainty that the growing gaps between the principals in the once invincible Guffey-Earle-McCloskey-John L. Lewis combination would be filled with scandalous dirt seldom matched in scandalous Pennsylvania politics. No sooner had Mayor Wilson opened the mudgates than Boss Guffey asked the Senate to find out whether Governor Earle had designated Little Matt as a State Representative in apportioning PWA funds. PWA Administrator Harold Ickes tacitly confirmed that Contractor McCloskey had counseled both the State and the PWA on the mechanics of allotting more than twenty million...