Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...became interested in the George Junior Republic and later was chosen one of its trustees. In 1896, he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention; two years later he ran for lieutenant-governor of New York on the Independent or Citizens' Union ticket. Mr. Osborne was twice elected mayor of Auburn, his home town, in 1902 and again in 1904. Two years ago he was chosen as delegate to the State Democratic Convention. Since June, 1907, he has served as a member of the Public Utilities Commission in New York...
...column of fours in front of University Hall, where Captain Burr will give a short talk in regard to preserving order in the parade. After this the parade will march out through Johnson Gate across Harvard square, and down Massachusetts avenue to City Hall, where it is expected that Mayor Wardwell will review the procession. From here the members of the Harvard divisions will continue over Harvard Bridge to the corner of Beacon street and Massachusetts avenue, and will then turn to the left down Beacon street, until the head of the line reaches Arlington street, where the column will...
...Prospect Union will open its seventeenth year of work in Cambridge on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. At that time brief addresses will be made by Mayor Wardwell, Professors F. G. Peabody '69 and J. L. Coolidge '95, and H. Abrahams, secretary of the Central Labor Union. A brief announcement of the plans for the year will be made by A. H. Elder 2L., educational director of the Prospect Union...
...force in Des Moines. The law is a general one, optional in cities with a population of 25,000 or over, and is intended to provide against all the common evils of city government. It gives the entire control of the city into the hands of five men, a mayor and four councillors of selection elected by the people for terms of two years each. The system of primary elections is used to determine the nominations; any man with the support of 25 citizens may have his name presented to the primary convention. From these men the 10 receiving...
...power of city government is vested in these men. The mayor has no separate powers, but is simply the presiding officer of the council. Each member of the council is charged with the administration of a department of the city's business, but the council is jointly responsible to the people. There is no "single man" power which has proved so unsuccessful in Boston, New York, and other large American cities. The council elects the important city officers and fixes their salaries; the pay of the mayor and councillors themselves is fixed by law and varies with the population...