Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began some years ago when Indianapolis welcomed the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan brought gutter politics. Last month Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis was found guilty of corrupt office-getting in his 1925 election. The City Council asked him to resign. He refused, and appointed his wife City Comptroller. In Indianapolis, the City Comptroller automatically succeeds the mayor should anything happen...
Pigs. Last fortnight, Detroiters balloted in a primary to nominate two candidates for mayor (TIME, Oct. 24). The first nominee, by 30,000 votes, was John C. Lodge, politically chaste grand-uncle of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The second nominee was John W. Smith, Detroit's present mayor...
Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...
Following the unfortunate discovery that many of the books in the Chicago Library were the gift of prominent Englishmen after the great fire. Mayor Thompson has as yet found no rebuttal to the charity of Queen Victoria and her generation. Meanwhile, in New England and other parts of the country still under British domination, the flames of sedition are unchecked. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, in an address before the Schoolmasters Club of Massachusetts, speaks openly of the "laugh that is sweeping the country" as a result of the Mayor's activities; and although Professor Hart denies that...
...time that some of the ridicule descended on the voters of America's second city who elected him on such a basis. If widespread and uncharitable laughter pursues a town already famous for the antics of gunmen, the blame lies more with its citizens than wit hits Mayor, who is after all only their representative; and if Chicagoans weary of being told to make their city streets safe for Americans before bothering themselves about the British menace, the remedy, as is usual in such cases, lies only with themselves...