Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rush into southern and midwestern states whence ominous sentiment has been issuing in favor of the wet presidential candidate, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith. In Indiana. Not in the least helpful to Dr. McBride were sounds issuing last week from Indiana. With the trial for alleged corruption of the mayor of Indianapolis and Governor Ed Jackson (TIME, Sept. 19), Dr. McBride was doubtless heartily sympathetic. But what could he think and feel about Attorney General Arthur L. Gillon of Indiana ? The latter, not content that the Reverend E. S. Shumaker, State Anti-Saloon superintendent of Indiana, had been sentenced...
German. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, junior U. S. Senator from New York, bosom friend of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, returned to the U. S., impressed by European aviation and by Mayor J. J. Walker's tour. Also, he had visited the village of Nastätten in Hesse-Nassau, Germany, where he was born...
Last week while the Mayor of Indianapolis went on trial charged with corrupt office-getting; while the Mayor of Chicago roamed the Pacific Coast trying to play a part in national politics; while the Mayor of Los Angeles bestirred himself to defeat a movement for his recall; while this mayor stayed at home and that mayor went to market, the youngest and spriest mayor of them all, James John Walker of New York, brought to a climax in Paris an American legend of Insouciance Abroad...
...Mayor Walker reached Paris from Rome and flipped off the train in a chocolate crush hat, blue shirt and suit, green and brown tie, beige topcoat and lavender handkerchief dashed with brown and purple...
...some flowers, observed her strong white teeth when she smiled, her stylish stoutness when she walked, watched the unusual grinning couple enter a motor. They decided that Mr. Walker meant what he said about his plans being "indefinite." How could such a gamin be definite? They welcomed him as "Mayor of the greatest American capital," but, as he said later: "How in Hell can one be dignified in these surroundings...