Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Hale Thompson the horn-blowing mayor, and Fred Lundin, the silent man with the black glasses. The only member of the Lorimer- Thompson-Lundin gang left in power is Lennington Small, Governor of Illinois...
Tomorrow night's Symphony Hall debate between the Cambridge University team of W. G. Fordham, H. G. G. Herklots, and A. L. Hutchinson and J. F. Barnes '27, D. W. Chapman '27, and F. W. Lorenzen '29, representing the University, will begin at 8.15 o'clock. Mayor M. E. Nichols '99, has accepted an invitation to act as presiding officer. F. E. Evans, British Vice-Consul in Boston, will act as Teller for Cambridge, while Dean C. N. Greenough '98 will act in a similar capacity for the University...
Welcome. Chairman Grover Whalen of the Mayor's Committee of Welcome and Mrs. Vincent Astor, personal representative of Mayor Walker of New York, boarded the Leviathan at quarantine from the municipal steamer Macon and welcomed Queen Marie in the name of the city. Followed J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, on a revenue cutter to extend the President's greetings. A third delegation of "personal friends of Queen Marie," likewise on the cutter, included Judge ("U. S. Steel") Gary and Samuel ("Sam") Hill of Seattle, Wash., potent railroader, who extended to Queen Marie the invitation to dedicate...
August Heckscher, zinc, realty: "I find myself fertile with philanthropic ideas. Last week I promised to Mayor Walker of New York $250,000,000 to replace New York slums with model dwellings, if the city and state governments will supply a like amount. I will raise my sum by dunning 500 rich friends for $500,000 each, to be paid in five yearly instalments. Mayor Walker dared not scoff. Others were impressed...
...Dover, Ohio, last week, four tipplers received a "water-cure" sentence of ten days from Mayor Groh; a gallon must be imbibed on each day; failure as to quantity will mean an extra...