Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Resolved, that a joint special committee consisting of three members of this board with such as the Board of Aldermen may join, be authorized in conjunction with the Mayor and Park Commissioners to open negotiation with the Metropolitan Park Commission or other proper authorities looking toward the acquisition of the property in question for public uses...
...joint session was opened last evening by addresses of "Welcome on Behalf of Cincinnati Hosts," by Hon. J. Galvin, mayor of Cincinnati, and E.H. Pendleton '82, chairman of the reception committee. H.E. Deming '71, chairman of the executive committee, replied on behalf of the National Municipal League. The fourth address of the evening was by President C.J. Bonaparte '71, of the Municipal League on "The Initiative in the Choice of Elective Municipal Officers...
James F. Jackson '73, of Brookline, Mass., formerly mayor of Fall River, and chairman of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission...
...Hall. In 1902 he was the only representative chosen from New England as Trustee of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, which was founded for the purpose of pensioning retired college professors. He was also one of the city's first rapid transit commissioners, being appointed to that office by Mayor Matthews in 1892. Major Higginson has long been a leader in all public movements in Boston...
...report of a committee appointed by the Economic Club to study the condition of the city government of Boston and investigate the feasibility of instituting a government by commission. The report alleges that entrusting such large powers to one man as has been the case with the mayor of Boston, has not proved wise and expedient in practice, and recommends that the executive branch of the city government be vested in a council of five persons. President Eliot is a member of the committee chosen and will be the first speaker...