Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero touched foot on the island of Manhattan, the air was full of shrieks, confetti and shredded ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn of the aeronautical 'we'." At Central Park the struggling grasses were browbeaten while...
Meanwhile some 1,800 delegates to the Mississippi Flood Control Conference clapped hands, stamped feet, as the Mayor mounted a platform over which hung a gigantic banner inscribed with the words, "America First." From the Sherman lobby came, intermittently, strains of a fife & drum corps which, aided by placards, advertised the conference...
Thus opened the Flood Control Conference, called by Mayors Thompson of Chicago, O'Keefe of New Orleans and Miller of St. Louis, but with Mayor Thompson the dominant spirit. Seven U. S. Senators and two Cabinet members (Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor) were present; so were Mayors from many a Mississippi Valley city; so was onetime U. S. Senator William Lorimer, once barred from the Senate after an investigation of his campaign expenditures; so was many another notable...
Speeches numerous and lengthy fell into two classes, depending on whether the speaker did or did not represent the Federal Government. Of the latter sort was Mayor Thompson's address which termed the flood "an indictment of and challenge to the Federal Government," something which "might have been expected in China but not in the rich America with its boasted good government...
...Mayor O'Keefe of New Orleans called upon the Federal Government to "assume full responsibility" to "make immediate appropriations...