Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Officials of Dayton accompanied Colonel Lindbergh while he visited the National Military Home to shake hands with veterans, while he placed a wreath on the grave of Wilbur Wright, while he attended a dinner given in his honor at which Mayor Allen C. McDonald presided. At this dinner, Mayor McDonald presented the aviator with a scroll, signed by himself, saying, "From the Citizens of Dayton ... on the occasion of his official visit ... as an evidence of their appreciation...
Unsatisfied were Daytonians who, hearing of his proposed call, had planned speeches, celebrations. Deprived of demonstrations, the Daytonians muttered and scowled. Said their police chief, "A dirty, backalley trick." Their mayor, Allen C. McDonald, said: ". . . Dayton will not soon forget." Said a sarcastic department store, five days after, using Colonel Lindbergh's visit for self-advertising to draw attention to their "spirit of economy" bargain sale: "There will be no disappointments in this demonstration...
...NOTES). When he was unable to attend, his place was taken, spontaneously, by onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. The substitution made a very considerable difference in the nature of the speech delivered, for Mr. Pinchot vigorously attacked the Federal Government for entrusting flood control to Army engineers, and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago expressed his total lack of confdence in the flood-prevention measures recently (TIME, Aug. 1) expounded by Mr. Hoover at Rapid City. Mr. Pinchot termed the Army engineers' efforts at flood-control "the most colossal engineering blunder of the human race." Mayor Thompson said...
There was a strange trial at Benton, Ill., last week. Three men- Charles Birger, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, gangsters all-were on trial for murder. The state claimed that they had paid Harry Thomasson, 19, and Elmo Thomasson, 17, $50 apiece to kill Mayor Joe Adams of West City, Ill., last winter (TIME, Feb. 21). The jury was chosen, the prosecution made its case, it was time for the defense to offer its testimony. But, one after the other, attorneys for Messrs. Birger, Newman and Hyland announced that their clients would not testify. Neither did they offer any other...
...roll call" of ringside sport writers revealed a distinct preponderance of dependable opinion in the school of thought that claimed a foul. Among those voting "no foul" were Mayor Walker of New York City; Champion Tunney; and men named Farrell, Byrne, O'Neill, Sullivan, Loughran...