Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Endowment Fund raised, Chairman of the Yale Corporation Otto Tremont Bannard last week sent in his resignation. Said he, in the battered phraseology of President Coolidge: "I do not choose to run for the Yale Corporation in 1928." When he ran for Mayor of New York City against Justice William J. Gaynor in 1909, Mr. Bannard was described as "a wheel-horse."* Busy-body reporters trying to color his personality, inquired: "What is you favorite form of exercise?" The reply: "None. I tell you I'm the damnedest, most uninteresting man you ever met!" He is also, however...
Detroit went to its primary polls to nominate two men to run for mayor. No parties took part. No issues were raised. And the man Detroit chose by a margin of 30,000 votes as leading nominee had made no campaign, posted no posters, mailed no cards, spoken no speeches. When this leading nominee heard the returns he said: "The vote of the people is a tribute for which I am deeply grateful. ... I believe that the people of Detroit know there is not an intolerant bone in my body...
...nominee was John C. Lodge, onetime Michigan State Senator, 18 years a Detroit Alderman. In 1919, Mayor James Couzens of Detroit said to Alderman Lodge: "You ought to be mayor of this town." As President of the City Council, Alderman Lodge virtually was the mayor later, for four years. Not until friends came to him with 50,000 names on a petition did he resign as Council president and enter his name in the primary...
...Prince Wilhelm said that he would find "such a racket very annoying." So the Chicago City Council, which has listened with pride to earsplitting, mile-a-minute escorts for Roman Catholic cardinals at the Eucharistic Congress, Queen Marie of Rumania, fisticuffers, gas merchants and almost every least journey of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, decreed that hereafter siren-blowing police escorts would be accorded only U. S. Presidents, kings, queens and-as despatches put it-"others of real distinction." Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was allowed to go quietly, almost unnoticed, through Chicago streets to breakfast at the Cliff Dweller...
...sort of gun-bearer. Mr. Roden was appointed after the previous librarian had been discharged through the efforts of Judge Frederick Bausman. Judge Bausman recently contributed an anti-British article to the American Mercury, which is edited by Mr. Henry L. Mencken. Every loyal supporter of Mayor Thompson wishes that these gentlemen will have a happy and successful lion hunt. It would be poor sportsmanship to wish anything else, or to point out that not only the Revolutionary War, but all succeeding ones, are now concluded by treaties of peace...