Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When President Coolidge was mayor of Northampton, Mass. (1910-11) he and Mrs. Coolidge could frequently be seen driving home from a shopping expedition, their car loaded with provisions purchased by Mrs. Coolidge. The same sight was last week seen in the streets of Rapid City, as Mrs. Coolidge had again become her own housekeeper. For Miss Ellen Riley, who came out from Washington to act as housekeeper at the State Lodge, fell ill, was sent to Rochester, Minn., for an operation. Instead of appointing a temporary successor, Mrs. Coolidge herself assumed the duties of directing the State Lodge domestics...
...Colonel Lindbergh had repeatedly explained his visit was wholly "unofficial" and had begged that there be no Dayton speeches or parade, eminent Daytonians were chagrined beyond gracefulness. Last week they were still bitterly quoting their police chief's description of the Lindbergh tactics: "a dirty, back-alley trick." Mayor Allen C. McDonald had put himself on record with the solemn pronouncement: "It is something that Dayton will not soon forget." Last week, with the incident five days old, a Dayton department store-one of several that had "played up" the Lindbergh visit in previous self-advertisements-proved Mayor McDonald...
...could not become operative until the present group of city officials complete their elective terms. However, City Manager adherents hope to have this legislative action (which was pushed through purely as a life-saver for the city hall officials) declared unconstitutional. They talked also of bringing impeachment proceedings against Mayor John L. Duvall. The Mayor, elected in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, will shortly go on trial, along with the City Comptroller, his brother-in-law, for political corruption in the 1925 election. The Indianapolis election was generally interpreted as the end of "Klan rule...
...people of Indianapolis were not "contented." To the polls they went, marked 53,000 ballots for the adoption of a City Manager plan of government, marked 9,000 for the retention of the Mayor-and-Council system. Under the new plan, the city will be governed by seven commissioners, elected by popular vote. The commissioners will select a city manager and a mayor (a member of the commission), but the mayor's duties will be largely along lines of giving visiting celebrities the keys of the city...
Thus, in sonorous phrase, Mayor Mederic Martin of Montreal called its citizens last week by proclamation to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Canadian Constitution. Throughout Canada virtually all other mayors made similar proclamations, though none exceeded the majestic fervor of the Mayor of Montreal...