Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returning to their demolished homesteads. The horrors of the whole holocaust are principally borne by them, without redress against the Government. Despite this, a message, signed by the Rotary Club, and approved by the Kiwanis Club, the American Legion, the Business Men's Association, and the Mayor's Committee of Dover protested indignantly when it was suggested that perhaps it would be better to remove the arsenal to some distant region, take away from the merchant's their bonanza of soldier trade...
...distinguished delegation of Italic-Americans including General Nobile (designer and pilot of the Norge) waited patiently in Mayor Walker's reception room in the New York City Hall, After half an hour, the Mayor came, delivered a speech, retired pale and limping. The Italians left, perplexed...
Within his office, Mayor Walker told friends that he had tried for half an hour to rise from his chair, but could not because of a terrific pain in his left knee. He called his brother, Dr. William H. Walker, who ordered an X-ray to be taken...
...night before the Mayor, playful, had been telling a story to Mrs. Walker and dinner guests. Desire for animated illustrations had prompted him to rise suddenly to his feet. He thwacked his knee against the table...
...German press was filled with pride last week when it made public a "last word" in civic modernity-an official airplane for Mayor Boess of Berlin. Germany is tightly sewn together by air routes between its principal cities. Officers of state invariably fly hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...