Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight was election week in Oberammergau, Germany. But not for a mayor, police chief or sheriff did the citizens vote. Pious and thoughtful, a committee representing all the citizens met to elect a new cast for their world-famed Passion Play in which the entire village takes part...
Eager California newsgatherers boarded a train at Santa Barbara last week and rudely interrupted Berlin's crop-headed, saber-scarred Mayor Gustav Boess in a pinochle game...
...matter what has developed in Berlin," said Mayor Boess, "I am involved in no scandal whatever. I fully intend to proceed with my original itinerary which provides for my sailing from New York on the Bremen, Oct. 24." He picked up his cards and proceeded to meld...
Almost three weeks ago the Sklareks declared themselves bankrupt. Ensued embarrassing public disclosures. Berlin editors announced that Mayor Boess himself had purchased a $1,000 fur coat for $100, hinted that the Sklareks were paying for Mayor Boess's U. S. trip...
...famed in Boston was the daily Telegram, scandalmonger. When its publisher, Frederick Wr. Enwright, was jailed in 1927 for having published a libelous cartoon of Mayor James Michael Curley, the Telegram was already dead. Publisher Enwright's present venture is a Telegram-News in Lynn, Mass. Last fortnight, this sheet gave an exhibition of a brand of journalism almost extinct...