Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even politics, however, has its White Hope. In Mayor Rogers, the American public has the sole survivor of a great tradition. There are others on the borderland. T. R. B. in the New Republic, Walter Lippmann in the New York World, an occasional editorial in the Nation, these form a gallant and a pitiful band. And even these are not always unencumbered with such impedimenta as missions, ideals, or factional propaganda, all of which are spurious to the true satirist...
Texas. With pardon-seekers crowding in the capitol, Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson prepared to retire on Jan. 19 in favor of Dan Moody. Last week, "Ma," with the advice of "Pa," pardoned a bigamist, a onetime mayor who had killed his son-in-law and 27 lesser convicts. During the 22 months of her governorship, "Ma" has issued some 3,000 clemency proclamations...
Chancellor Herbert S. Hadley of Washington University, onetime (1909-13) governor of Missouri: "Ill, I was unable to deliver my speech at a university club luncheon in Kansas City, Mo. But the mayor read aloud what I had written, including my endorsement of President Clarence Cook Little's (University of Michigan) plan to minimize the importance of college football by having rival universities prepare two teams apiece. Let them be called, for example, the Red team and the Blue. Let only Red meet Red and Blue meet Blue, a game at each college on the same day, 'thus...
...Mayor, The City of Aiken
...like nothing better than a good noisy demonstration at "the depot" had a splendid one last week. In came a train bearing a burly moose of a man with hands, feet and a smile which any politician might envy. And that was what he was, a politician, onetime Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, now chairman of the Illinois waterways commission. He had come from Washington and when the brass bands had followed him to a hotel he shouted, "Let them come...