Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This plan proposes to adopt a form of city government similar to that of the city of Boston. The mayor will have full control, and power to appoint all officers and city commissioners. To assist him a board composed of 15 aldermen at large will be elected, though their function will be chiefly advisory...
...Athletic Committee decided to extend a vote of thanks to President Gaffney and Mayor Good, of Cambridge, for the offer of the Braves Field and of Russell Field on which to play the game if necessary...
Except for the formal granting of the permit, all obstacles against erecting the necessary wooden stands to play the Yale game in the Stadium have now been removed. Mayor Curley was yesterday advised by Corporation Counsel John A. Sullivan, A. M. '11 (hon.), that Building Commissioner Patrick O'Hearn has full authority to grant the H. A. A. a permit, and that in case the commissioner fails to grant this permit, the H. A. A. has recourse to the Board of Appeal. This was the first legal advice which the Boston city authorities have sought on this matter...
...that Harvard at least should know the truth of this war," I owe one of the most interesting days of my life--the 16th of last March--when I motored some fifty miles along the French front from Nancy through Lunecille to Gerbeviller and back, in company with the Mayor, and Recteur of the University of Nancy, and Professor Paul Petit, of the Faculte des Sciences there. On the previous day, during my lecture at the university, I had heard the cannon roar at Pont-a-Mousson, and though I was assured that there was came absolu along...
From Hoeville we retraced our steps to Remereville and then north again to Erbeviller and Champenoux, which we entered from the south after another careful scrutiny by the sentry. The Mayor thought that by turning to the right we might ge out to Mazerulles and see some artillery in action. So we passed swiftly out of Champenoux to the eastward, only to be brought up after we had gone half a mile or so by a salvo from a battery of soixante-quinzes installed in a carefully concealed position close to the roadside. We were not 50 yards distant from...