Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, foes of the Republican machine bossed by U. S. Senator-Elect William S. Vare rejoiced greatly in defeat. The Vare-picked candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, City Treasurer Harry A. Mackey, defeated J. Hampton Moore, a onetime Philadelphia Mayor, by 73,969 votes (unofficial count). This was over 100,000 votes less than Senator-elect Vare piled up in the Philadelphia pri-mary last Autumn against George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot. Elated, Candidate Moore and friends talked about another assault on the Vare machine at the November election, with an independent ticket. Philadelphians could thus look forward...
...Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis, convicted and thus sentenced, said: "I have nothing...
...Mayor Duvall's defense counsel, who mean to appeal his conviction through the Indiana Supreme Court, said: "John Duvall isn't the first Indianapolis man made to stand and defend himself solely because he was unfortunate enough to run and be elected to office." The charges against unfortunate John Duvall had included his acceptance of $14,500 from one William H. Armitage, gambler, saloonist and politician, in return for the privilege of naming three city officials. This privilege Mr. Duvall was said to have revoked later when he found it conflicted with similar privileges he had promised...
...Mayor's immediate surroundings were the spacious gold-and-red apartments of the Hotel Crillon's prize suite, where President Wilson, General Pershing and the like had lodged before him. With twelve servants at his beck, the Mayor arrayed himself afresh and received newsgatherers. They noted a small rotundity under his natty waistcoat. He admitted his receptions had been bounteous. "If this keeps up much longer," he said, "I shall have to finish my vacation in a hospital. ... I will soon be developed enough around the middle to qualify for an alderman. . . . When I get my feet under my desk...
...Next day the Mayor arrived, only half an hour late, at the Unknown Solider's Tomb. "I should have preferred," he told General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, "to come to Paris incognito to decipher the soul of the city." "You incognito! Impossible!" said General Gouraud...