Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor Oscar Holcombe, when he heard the news last week, recalled that the American Bankers Association and the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World survived conventions in Houston. Jesse Holman Jones announced magnificently that a $100,000 "tabernacle," seating 25,000, would be built at once...
...turn) is Commissioner Johnston B. Campbell, long a railroad lawyer in Duluth and Spokane. Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, who dissented vigorously and voluminously from the St. Paul decision, is a product of Amherst and the Massachusetts public service commission. Richard V. Taylor, oldest Commissioner, 68, was once (1921) elected Mayor of Mobile, Ala., where he was a railroad official. Commissioner Frank McManamy is a workaday railroader out of Michigan who helped William Gibbs McAdoo run trains during...
Happy the city whose mayor satisfies for three terms running. Happier the city whose three-term mayor chooses to run again. Last week, Milwaukee rejoiced when Daniel Webster Hoan, who emerged as city attorney in Milwaukee's Socialist landslide of 1910 and rose from that office to the mayoralty in 1916 despite the combined efforts of Republicans and Democrats,* declared that "to quit [now] would mean to unsettle conditions and to disrupt a well organized municipal service which required twelve years of effort to build...
Another Socialist mayor is Mayor J. Henry Stump of Reading, Pa., honest cigarmaker. Mayor Stump and comrades, who came to power in a Milwaukee-like election sweep last November, are out to prove that the record of the first Socialist city regime in the U. S. is the triumph of a social theory as well as of individual integrity...
Last week, Detroiters introduced another new model. It had no balloon tires, no windshield, no horn. It was a mayor not a motor. It was Mayor John Christian Lodge who won office without benefit of one campaign speech, one political promise, one rooster-boost. Wearing a new grey suit and looking not unlike Henry Ford, Mayor Lodge offered his right hand to all-comers. Policemen gripped so hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names...