Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicagoans awoke one morning last week to find that 512,740 of their number had elected William Hale Thompson as Mayor...
...headquarters, the Mayor-elect regaled reporters and press agents: he would establish an America First Association in every state in the Union; he would "show King George V where to get off"; he would be "Big Bill the Builder"; he would run the gangsters out of Chicago and let them go to St. Louis, Detroit, New York; he would "make the streets safe so that women and children can go to the movies at night"; he would not let the police go "sniffing around for home brew"; he might go after the presidency...
...Acting Mayor Fred B. Frazier of Chattanooga, Tenn.: "My wife and I received with anxious hands a special delivery letter. It read: 'We have your baby. It will take $3,333.33. She is all right, but last night was cold. We don't know what will happen this cold weather. Be ready with the money when we call you. This is not my writing, so you needn't try to trace me.' The police had failed to find the kidnapers of our two-year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed...
...anchorite of Wall Street, President Baker yet inherently dislikes publicity. That reticence, among other factors, prevented Mayor James Walker of New York City appointing Mr. Baker police commissioner last year, although Mr. Baker's friends assured Mayor Walker that the banker would accept the appointment as an obligation. They pointed to the facts that he is, quietly, the President of St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan, a trustee of Columbia University, and an earnest, active Episcopalian...
...Pinedo, swart Fascist ace, last week swooped into New Orleans with his two aides in their big seaplane. He had just shaved freshly out over the Gulf of Mexico, finished off his ship's last bottle of Chianti, played his phonograph. Voluble gentlemen, one of them enormously corpulent (Mayor O'Keefe), welcomed him to the U. S. Soon he was hopping again, to Galveston, to San Antonio. His four-continent itinerary called for flight across the desert southwest to the Pacific, north to Seattle, back (following lakes) to Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland, the Azores, Portugal, Rome. He hoped...