Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other "mayors" of Indianapolis were one Joseph Hogue and one Walter Myers. They contended that, by Mayor Duvall's conviction, his election in 1925 was voided. Joseph Hogue claimed office on the ground that he was City Comptroller in the administration of John L. Duvall's immediate predecessor, the late Lew Shank. Walter Myers claimed office because he ran second to John L. Duvall in the 1925 election...
Surrounded by prizefight photographs, kewpie dolls, china figurines, flowers, bronze elephants and tinted photographs of himself, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago spent an active week at his political headquarters in the Hotel Sherman. He was a busy, busy...
...trial for Anglomania of School Superintendent William McAndrew of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 17 EDUCATION) dragged on. The Mayor's censor of history books, Urbine J. ("Sport") Herrman, heavy-jowled theatre owner and yachtsman, continued to examine the contents of the Chicago Public Library (which Queen Victoria helped build) for pro-British propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called...
...spokesmen announce that 10,000 people would go to Washington to lobby for the flood control legislation prepared at a conference which Mayor Thompson lately called independently of Federal agencies...
...Replied Mayor Hoan (Socialist) of Milwaukee: ". . . We are too busy . . . making our local government worthy of respect to indulge in gallery play...