Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progressiveness of college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...
...guest of honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance but affection for Mayor Thompson; political comment everywhere because Mayor Thompson, undoubted controller of the Illinois...
Said Vice-President Dawes: "It was a luncheon I gave for Parker Gilbert and I invited the Mayor to extend the city's greetings. There was no politics...
Viscount Shimpei Goto, onetime Mayor of Tokyo, arrived diffidently at Moscow. Cornered by correspondents, he protested: "I came here on no political, economic or indeed any specific mission." Pumped by a U. S. correspondent, he said...
...salary schedules were hurried off to Albany for filing and took effect with the new year-not before they had been denounced by former Mayor Hylan and by President Stewart Browne, of the United Real Estate Owners' Association. "An injustice to real educational leaders, a robbery of the public schools," said Mr. Browne, irate. Former Mayor Hylan complained that the lower paid teachers were unfairly treated...