Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school authorities were helpless. President Ralph Snyder of the Board of Safety, representing Mayor Floyd E. Williams, arbitrated the situation and the strikers won all their demands. Magnanimous, Winfield Eschelman and friends permitted three Negro seniors to finish out the year at Emerson because they had been there all along, but the rest were transferred temporarily to an all-Negro junior high school elsewhere in town. The strikers returned to classes...
What was to the bargees merely an unwarranted disturbance of early morning comfort, was, to newspapers, material for front pages desecrated by a lack of transoceanic flights and prizefights. The man so scornfully described by the lazy fellows, was in reality James J. Walker, Mayor of New York, who had been abroad for two months. Surely the adjectives applied by the bargees were out of order; they had read, no doubt, in spare moments, accounts of the Mayor's whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France...
...reporters, Mayor Walker said, as he drew near to New York, "I studied housing, hospitals, water-supply and transit. . . . I never had time to ride on the subways. I always wanted to, but there was always something else going on. . . . The funniest thing that happened to me abroad was the most pathetic. For two weeks I've been refusing good drinks." "How often?" asked incredulous newsgatherers. "Continuously." "Why?" "Hell," said the Mayor of New York, "you spoil it by asking why. I was sick!" Later the Mayor of New York said: "The greatest thrill of my life was when...
Reaching the town hall the Archduke walked up the steps in a towering rage. Snarled he to the mayor: "Mr. Mayor, I come here on a visit and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous. Now you may speak...
Most potent of the puffs that blew corpulent William Hale Thompson into the mayoralty of Chicago last April was his loud cry: "Americanism!" Once in office, the Mayor announced a crusade against School Superintendent William McAndrew, imported three years before from New York City because his recognized ability was needed to improve Chicago's educational system. Mr. McAndrew had vexed the Mayor. He had interfered with the easy-going manner of awarding contracts for school buildings. He had taught that the U. S. Army retreated before the advance of the British on Washington...