Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Mrs. Walker, who was dressed in a long, black gown and lace mantilla, the Mayor was received by Pope Pius XI at Rome. The Mayor soon emerged from his private audience and said to reporters: "The Holy Father put me at my ease at once. He treated me as if he were my father indeed. He rested his elbow on the large table between us and spoke to me in soft paternal tones. So I rested my elbow on the table also and answered without fear or re-straint." The truth of the Mayor's description became more...
...Mayor Walker went into a 45-minute conference with Benito Mussolini. When, after being photographed with him, the Mayor was permitted to leave the presence of Il Duce, there was an immediate outburst of enthusiasm. Said he: ". . . What a wonderful man . . . immense ... I don't know whether he wore a cutaway or riding breeches. ... I only noticed his attraction from the chin up... a man of superior attainments. . . . While we were together there was no minority, only unanimity." ¶After a luncheon given for him by Prince Potenziani, Mayor Walker made a speech which he began with witticism that...
...city manager system much resembles the structure of a business corporation. There is a city council or commission like a board of directors, elected by the people. The councilors or commissioners sometimes appoint a vestigial sort of mayor whose functions are chiefly social. Their important appointee is an executive who man ages the actual government and then tells the council or commission about...
...among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight. In the interim Mayor Thompson planned to propel his hulking, ruddy figure into national politics by "preaching the doctrines of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. ... I am standing now for what the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence stood for. What was good enough for them is good enough for me!" Specifically...
Last week the citizens of Atlantic City, N. J., gathered along the ocean to witness an almost incredible spectacle. Their mayor, one Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., was being joggled along, uncomfortably enthroned upon a curious vehicle. Sitting beside him, dressed up as Father Neptune, a Broadway comedian named Eddie Dowling bowed and grimaced and made remarks which were inaudible. Behind this incongruous pair, an interminable succession of similar vans, decorated in fantastic style to resemble skyscrapers, vegetable gardens, bird cages, beaches, groves or prairie lands, conveyed 74 young women along the corduroy boardwalk. Each of the young women...