Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pounder stood upon the stage of the Four Cohans' Theatre in Chicago last week. His paunch heaved like a vexed hippo's, his ham of a hand smote the air, his flabby face howled. Technically, he was no vaudeville actor; he was William Hale Thompson, candidate for Mayor of Chicago. Yelled he: "I wanta make the King of England keep his blasted snoot out of America. . . . This is the issue of the campaign [he draped the Stars and Stripes over his arm]. What was good enough for Washington is good enough for me. In the face...
Lewis declared that he had never been out to Harvard, "but still", he said. "I have been to an Elks' initiation in Cambridge, so I thought I could do anything I liked in Cambridge." In support of this his final words were, "Mayor Quinn came to see me the last time I was up here: so he must be out of town just now or I'm sure he would have come right in to see me this time. I guess that sort of gives me the freedom of your city, all right...
Last summer (TIME, July 26) one Dexter E. Chipps went to Evangelist Norris' study in the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with...
...protect your own life. Dr. Norris is a man of courage. He had the right to kill Chipps the minute he came into his office door, but he did not. He waited until Chipps came back, rushed at him to carry out the promise he [Chipps] had made to Mayor H. C. Meacham [of Fort Worth, who was not permitted to testify in this trial] to stop Norris or kill him. Poor Chipps was sent to his death that day by the Mayor of Fort Worth...
Died. Edward L. Bader, 52, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J.; in the Atlantic City Hospital, following an appendicitis operation.** He was in turn newsboy (1887), dental student, veterinary student, financial student (Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania), professional footballer (1902), large scale garbage collector, contractor (rebuilt the famed Steel Pier), mayor...