Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bossy" Gillis strewed his vacant lot with tombstones and household crockery labelled: "The Spirit of Newburyport." He called on Mayor Mike Cashman, punched his jaw and spent two months in jail denouncing "the fossils that run this burg...
Still denouncing fossils, "Bossy" Gillis ran last November for Mayor of Newburyport. Without knowing quite why, Newburyport elected him. Last fortnight, he took office. Last week, he began bossing...
Specimen statements by Mayor Gillis...
With Colonel Lindbergh eliminated because of his years, public opinion gives definite indications of making Will Rogers its choice for the next president. Favorite son of Oklahoma, mayor of Claremont, California, the humorist has been so long an important critic of politics that his qualifications as a practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings...
...experienced, courageous, and safe and sound," said representative Howard in Congress in advocating his election. Certainly there is material in that body for the constructive wit of an enlivened Presidential spokesman. The Nation has honored his trip to Mexico. Liberty should endorse his grammatical standards, and his friend of Mayor Thompson his non-deference to ceremonial. In fact the only amusing thing about this projected campaign is the fact that it is not taken seriously...