Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accurately with supplies which saved the refugee's lives. ... A corps of flyers bravely patrolled a 400-mile stretch south of Memphis, in land planes. If forced down certain drowning awaited them. No respecter of greatness, the flood sadly hampered the glory-cruise of William Hale Thompson, Chicago mayor, who last week started down the Mississippi from Cairo, accompanied by a large party on the river steamers Cincinnati and Cape Girardeau. Refugees, clinging to ridgepoles and treetops, beheld the Thompson showboats, lonely, imposing Noah's Arks in the modern deluge...
...Orleans, where the Thompson trip was to terminate in welcome-speeches, in reception-com-mittees, masses of citizens were gathered, not to greet but to repel a visitor. Chagrined, but sympathetic, sorry, the Mayor gave $1,000 to Memphis floodfighters. In all, his party contributed...
Married. Mary Lewis, 27, one-time Follies soprano; to Michel Franz Bohnen, 39, muscular? basso-baritone; both of the Metropolitan Opera; in Manhattan, by Mayor J. J. Walker...
...writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country, but not a great people. And everything was there to make America a great country...
...Mayor Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: "Last week I paused, before signing an ordinance creating the job of 'bull cook' at a municipal hydro-electric work camp, to remark: 'It seems that the [City] Council could have adopted a title suggesting some degree of dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...