Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quantico's Mayor and stationmaster, A. E. Mclnteer, summoned the town council. Theirs was a quandary with only one exit. Without bootleggers, life in Quantico would be dull. But without Marines there would be no life at all. Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to neighboring towns to borrow warrants. After a short, intense campaign he reported to General Butler that the last "big" bootlegger had left town. Merchants dusted off their stock, waited anxiously for the sound of the band leading the Marines back to Quantico...
...over the nomination of a Register of Wills, a City Treasurer, a Coroner-great was the to-do because the primary was the acknowledged battle for political supremacy between Boss William Scott Vare (three years elect, but not yet seated as a U. S. Senator) and Mayor Harry A. Mackay, once Vare's campaign manager, last week his rival. On the eve of the primary Miss Beatrice Vare coming from the Senator's sickbed broadcast over the city...
...Buffalo a freak primary brought about the following result: Frank X. Schwab, present Republican mayor, was renominated for his office on the Democratic ticket, defeating the regular Democratic designee, 2 to 1, but was defeated for renomination on the Republican ticket by another Republican...
...York City, Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. La Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80,000 compared to 714.000 votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried...
...Mayor Gustav Boess, of Berlin, Frau Boess and their party, arrived in Manhattan, handshook Mayor James John Walker, Berlin's guest two years ago. Mayor Boess at once asked to be shown Coney Island (fun park...