Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor James J. Walker of New York City has been invited to throw out the ball or the first tile which will be the Harvard-Princeton match, starting at 3 o'clock. The New York executive is an ardent polo fan and is expected to be on hand to open the tournament. Following the University's clash with the Nassau quartet, the West Point mallet men will take the field against the Pennsylvania Military College team. Officials of the Intercollegiate Polo "Association expect the coming tournament to draw the largest gathering of spectators that has ever witnessed a college match...
Charles A. McLain left Butte, Mont., several weeks ago. He left after dinner with Mayor William H. Horgan and Judge Joseph R. Jackson of the Supreme Court of the state of Montana, many city officials and other prominent citizens. For many months, perhaps for years, he will not see the tin sardine and preserved fruit cans collecting their films of copper in the gullies around his home town. He will be in Manhattan studying "for a début in the New York music world...
...university will be host at a luncheon at which the royal party and representatives of the Faculty will be guests, and to which Governor Trumbull and Mayor Tower have been invited. The Prince will visit the Yale Bowl, the baseball and track fields and the Laphan club-house. This is through an expressed interest in athletics. He was chairman of the Swedish Olympic Committee and has himself won many athletic titles in European competition...
Meanwhile, 50,000 eager sightseers had rushed to catch a phrase from three distinguished speakers: Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia, "a visualization of the progress of the world"; Secretary of State Kellogg, "exploitation of our potentialities"; Secretary of Commerce Hoover, "moral and spiritual awakening . . . maintain our position in the world...
...Sweden and J. Butler Wright of the State Department took the visitors on a city ferryboat. Governor's Island fired 21 guns. The municipal fireboat sent eight streams of water high in the air. At the Battery a guard of Marines escorted the party to the City Hall. Mayor Walker made a speech. The Crown Prince made a speech?quite professionally?into the radio microphone?departed for Washington...