Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jockey Albert Johnson, up on Bubbling Over, sat in the winner's circle with a bunch of American Beauties in his arms. Owner Bradley,* the richer by $50,075 for the Winner's stake alone, let Mayor Walker of New York present him with a golden cup. Bubbling Over had won by five lengths; Bagenbaggage was second; Rockman third...
...company has accordingly arranged a public demonstration before a Mayor Quinn. Chief Inspector P. J. Hurley, and other municipal notables to prove the absolute safety of their vests. In order that the whole affair might be quite open and above board the Boston agents decided to get a Harvard man to appear as the wearer of the vest. An offer of $25 was made to any student who would brave the point-blank fire of a pistol in the interests of public safety and knowledge...
...proceeded to Cologne, hip flasks filled with cognac were presented to all members of the party, after they had been led by candle light through miles of wine cellars. A ballet of genuine Rhine maidens subsequently performed in one of the great cellars. Mrs. James Walker, wife of the Mayor of New York City, and an honorary member of the hotel-tour said: "This beer is the best I ever tasted...
...Chicago Record-Herald, and later an assistant to Illinois' Secretary of State at Springfield, what time (1893-97) he tutored in law. Then he went to Ohio, passed its bar requirements and began practicing in Toledo. That town welcomed his vigor and independence, soon (1905) electing him mayor over four other candidates and re-electing him in three successive elections. Then he refused renomination and settled to pursue his literary work, began in 1902. In 1912, he added to his list of seven published stories and essays, The Fall Guy, an interpretation of U. S. life that was dramatized...
...closing week any number of bishops and leaders of prohibition- supporting societies declared their faith in prohibition. Mayor Dever rushed down from Chicago to deny testimony given by a Federal attorney that Chicago was full of bootlegging and to wipe out "a blot on the fair name of his city." Even some Yale students were called to testify to the result of a vote taken in the University in which students and faculty voted 4 to 1 for modification of prohibition, and declared that students got just as much liquor now as ever before. Professor Irving Fisher of the University...