Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Replied Mayor Miller of St. Louis: "I am too busy...
...Mayor Swarthout of Grand Rapids: ". . . Can the blind lead the blind...
This last irritated Mayor Thompson. He retorted to Mr. Celler: "Permit me to suggest that you should not use the word intelligent , over your signature...
While his friends and backers began to wonder if their "Big Bill" might not have carried a splendid idea a bit too far, Mayor Thompson remained loudly confident. "I'm a guy," he says, "with the guts to speak right out. I've been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. I may not be smart but I'm smart enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success." First and foremost on Mayor Thompson's list of successful '"guys" is George Washington...
...ward has the smell of soiled bandages, disinfectants and decay. It was opened in 1869 when New York established the first ambulance service in the U. S. Its building, for decades muggy and stuffy, is older. De Witt Clinton, onetime (1803-15) Mayor of New York, laid the cornerstone in 1811. Grass spread about it then; the East River was a pleasant prospect. Now all is grime and noise...