Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woke up in Florida, breakfasted below Jacksonville, got off after lunch at Miami. There it was all top hats, shiny motors, swaying palms, "Hail to the Chief." Zooming airplanes, booming realty, bright blue water, a schooner wrecked by last year's hurricane, fluttering handkerchiefs, baskets of fruit, "Goodbye, Mayor Sewell"?and the Coolidge Special rolled...
...campaign for 'America first,' now being conducted in Chicago by Mayor Thmpson is nothing more than a smoke-screen, thrown up by the group in power ther to cloak their real purposes," was all that David Saville Muzzey '93, Professor of History at Columbia University, would say specifically about the situation existing in Chicago at the present time, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. One of Professor Muzzey's books was included in the large number of volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed...
...Mayor Thompson claimed that the offending works perverted the real facts about the early days in America and presented the matter in such a light as to contaminate the minds of Chicago's citizen with the viewpoints of our country's onetime enemies. He particularly feared "Angelicizing" of the viewpoint of inhabitants of Chicago, although he did not use quite that expression...
...Mayor "Bossy" Gillis was not Newburyport's first eccentric hero. Late in the 18th century, an illiterate tanner named Timothy Dexter, who had made a fortune in Continentals, moved to Newburyport and there performed commercial prodigies. He shipped mittens and warming pans to the West Indies, coal cargoes to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He cornered the whale- bone market. His profits startled...
Impressed by the way he conducted himself last summer in Europe, the Mardi Gras Committee of New Orleans last week announced that it had invited glib, dapper Mayor James John Walker of New York to be Lord High Chamberlain of its revels next month. Mayor Walker was reported trying to contrive to accept...