Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson Jackson, Negro porter and keeper of the Presidential zoo of raccoons, bees, dogs, cats, owls, etc., quivered last week when President Coolidge told him that two lion cubs were on the way from Johannesburg, South Africa- the gift of the mayor of that city. With his eyeballs rolling, Keeper Jackson said he would be glad to care for the lions "if they are young enough and not too ornery." The President explained that they are supposed to be especially playful, even though one of them had bitten off a man's foot just before being shipped...
...Love of Sunya (Gloria Swanson). Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, bequeather of radio outfits to disabled veterans and radio music to the U. S., invited Manhattan celebrities to the opening of his new "cathedral of motion picture," world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment...
...many times was Dick Whittington Lord Mayor of London...
...course the Harvard Professor may soon be lecturing with amplifiers from his Morris Chair, or even while sunning himself with ex-Mayor Hylan on the Palm Beach sands. Fluency might be enhanced by a little Prince Albert in a Briar Pipe and by evading the facing of dreary rows of bland, apathetic faces. If the Professor be indisposed, each student may put on the record marked Hypnosis--Extra Deep--and have his roommate follow it with English 13 for Deep Sleepers--etc. The possibilities are obviously limitless...
Nine times he waged unsuccessful compaigns for political offices (State treasurer, Mayor, Governor, U. S. Senator). His political creed: Gain office in the legislatures of capitalism to carry on the war for a peaceful revolution within their very walls...