Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Ferber appears not to have included "Hinky Dink" McKenna with "Bath House" John Coughlin in the stage-setting of Chicago under Mayor Carter Harrison, an omission that should not be allowed to pass without notice...
...statement in reference to our City and our Mayor is decidedly wrong from every angle. Our Mayor is Walter Rochefort, graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He has no brother, a police inspector in Chelsea. The indictments you refer to were Chelsea, Mass., cases and not Lawrence, Mass., cases, and outside of the above corrections your article seems to be reasonably fair...
...erroneous assignment of Mayor Lawrence F. Quigley to Lawrence, Mass., instead of to Chelsea, Mass., was due to an erroneous news despatch; is regretted...
Your correspondent may be better informed than I am in reference to the "dubious relations existing between City, County, State and National officials," but I feel at liberty to take exceptions to your statement that "at Lawrence, Mass., the typical defendants on trial last week were the Mayor himself and his brother, a Chelsea police officer...
...been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait of a college quarterback and a stiff little mustache like a French soldier's. One day last week he dropped in on Mayor Walker and through an interpreter-for the young man is entitled to his mustache, and speaks none but his native language-told his grinning host that he, too, had been a mayor once but found the job too difficult. Mayor Walker ejaculated: "I am surprised you didn't make...