Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polyglot, steelmaking northern Indiana, candidates for the coming election were given charged grenades to throw. A Federal "cleanup" campaign produced grand jury indictments against 299 residents of East Chicago, Gary, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, on charges of violating liquor, white slave, narcotic and automobile theft laws. In East Chicago, Mayor Raleigh P. Hale, Republican candidate for reelection, and the Chiefs of Police and Detectives were all arrested for multifarious violations of Prohibition laws...
...when Calvin Coolidge was President, silence was golden. Using nothing but silence, John Christian Lodge, grand-uncle of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was elected Mayor of Detroit. Now that Herbert Hoover is President, silence is still fashionable, but not so popular. Neither is Col. Lindbergh. And Mayor Lodge, still using silence as his chief campaign trick, ran third last week in Detroit's mayoralty primary. The leader: John W. Smith, mayor before Lodge...
...people of New York City will elect a mayor. Outstanding issue in the campaign has been the year-old Rothstein murder case (TIME, Dec. 24) with accompanying charges of laxity and corruption in the present Tammany administration, headed by re-election-seeking Mayor James John Walker. Last fortnight, New Yorkers were surprised to hear that George A. McManus, labelled by the police as The-Man-Who-Killed-Rothstein, would be brought to trial on Oct. 15. Last week New Yorkers were disappointed to hear that the trial had been postponed to Nov. 12. For, said Judge Charles C. Nott...
Detraining, the cadets will form and march from the railroad station to Boston Common for the review by Gov. Allen, Maj.-Gen. Preston Brown, Maj.-Gen. Smith, superintendent of West Point; Mayor Nichols and Mayor Quinn of Cambridge. The column will proceed along Huntington Avenue to Dartmouth Street, to Beacon Street, and thence to the Common, entering at the Charles Street-Beacon Street gate...
...Mayor of Badenvillier sat on a platform last week, a tricolor sash wrapped round his stomach. Before him on a velvet cushion lay the cross of the Legion of Honor, presented to the commune of Badenvillier by the French government. Donor of the cross, chief orator at Badenvillier's celebration was chunky, heavy mustached Paul Painleve, French Minister of War. Said...