Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stuttgart, Germany, the Burgomaster, Mayor, and officials of the town, together with numerous uncles, cousins, aunts, and more distant kinsmen, welcomed Gertrude Ederle, Channel swimmer. She will next visit her grandmother-Gertrude Ederle, 77-in Bissinger, where the old lady keeps bar in her own hotel, Lamb...
William Hale Thompson, ex-mayor of Chicago, famed for his horn-blowing parties at Riverview (Chicago's Coney Island), told the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," explained how to use bunko parties to raise campaign money...
Senator Reed: "Mayor, what is a bunko party? I know the game, but I never knew it was used as an amusement...
...They couldn't find his history in Who's Who (it's not there yet). Good Chicagoans pointed with pride to him when he carried a Democrat, William E. Dever, into the City Hall in 1922 over the wreckage of the grimy William Hale Thompson machine. Mayor Dever's record is "Boss" Brennan's most flourishing gesture. But he insists that politics is merely his avocation, along with shooting canvasbacks and sitting in on jackpots: "For me, politics is a sideline, a recreation. I make my living in business and have my fun in politics...
There might have been speeches. There might have been tugboats swathed in flags and a police band playing Sousa's march and the Mayor standing in the bow waving the Keys of the City. There might have been all these delights and many more if, one hot day last February on the Riviera, she had drunk a glass of brandy when Mlle. Lenglen drank one, and if an attack of appendicitis had not forced her to occupy the Royal Box instead of Court No. 1 at the recent festivities at Wimbledon. For the exclamation of the Panama really punctuated...