Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flushing district of Queens took over Lawyer Klein's evidence and charges and passed them up to Albany, asking Governor Smith to suspend and investigate the entire Connolly regime. Since President Connolly is a Democrat, the Republican Legislature of New York yearned to conduct this inquiry. In Manhattan, Mayor James J. Walker yearned to conduct the inquiry because President Connolly had opposed Mayor Walker's election, being a political brother of famed John F. Hylan, Mayor Walker's old-style predecessor...
Lawyer Buckner, appointed last week by Justice Scudder, was the man who investigated New York police corruption under Mayor Gaynor in 1912-13. More lately (1925-27), as U. S. Attorney, he was chief padlocker of the biggest and wettest of U. S. cities, and prosecutor in the famed Earl Carroll bath-tub case and in the alien property conspiracy case against Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas Woodnutt Miller...
...statue goes up it will be only the third statue publicly erected to a Jew in the U. S. One of the others is in Manhattan, raised for Heinrich Heine, poet. The other is on the city hall square of Paterson, N. J., and honors Nathan Barnert, twice mayor of Paterson. Mr. Barnert began business in Paterson in 1855, four years after it was incorporated as a city.† He prospered; became owner of silk mills; gave away his money-for a hospital, a nurses' home, a home for the aged, a perpetual fund to provide dowries for poor...
...Three hundred mayors representing cities from all parts of the United States attending First National Airports Conference called by Mayor William Hale Thompson extend congratulations on your achievement," said a telegram from Chicago to Mexico City, last week. Notably absent among these 300 mayors was John C. Lodge of Detroit whose election a Detroiter ascribes partially to the fact that Mr. Lodge is granduncle to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. One good reason why Mr. Lodge did not attend the mayoral gathering at Chicago was that, elected mayor of Detroit only last month, he has not yet been inaugurated. Mayor-elect...
...remains to be seen whether the humorist will consent to take the proposition seriously. But at all events it is interesting that it should have been made. Whether or not his experiences as Mayor have given him local reputation as a politician or whether or not his travels and contacts with persons in high places are thought to be proof of his political acumen are matters that have not been discussed. He himself will probably answer the questions himself, and one is not sorry that the should have the opportunity...