Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement started in Great Britain, and spread from there, taking a very strong hold in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland. It has proved especially influential in rural districts; in one Swiss town where the same man was mayor of the town and President of the Cooperative Society it was said that he considered the latter position by far the more important. This is an indication of the trend away from political coercive rule toward voluntary control by the people themselves...
That night some of the strikers' directorate, the United Front Committee, talked over the telephone to Norman Thomas, onetime Socialist candidate for governor and mayor of New York. Would Mr. Thomas care to test the legality of the Riot Act? Mr. Thomas knew that the U.S. Government has on file other documents besides those that provide for the suppression of disorder. There is for instance the Constitution, which guarantees to freemen the right to meet and voice their opinions. Next day, in Garfield, N. J., Mr. Thomas climbed into the crotch of an appletree stump and put the Riot...
Gifts. As the Premier prepared to set out on a tour of the interior, Hassuna Pasha, the native Mayor of Tripoli, presented him with a superb gold writing service and a beautiful Arabian sword. Said he: "Signor Mussolini, few mortals can equal your skill with both the pen and the sword. Our gift is accordingly symbolic...
...next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which the bespangled audience?Anita Loos and Father Duffy, Al Jolson and His Honor the Mayor, and many another more or less notable who had paid $27.50 to be there? crowded out into the lobby to ogle one another...
...editor of the Manhattan Social Register marked for deletion from that compendium last week the name of Mr. McEvers Bayard Brown, a descendant of the 16th mayor of New York, Nicholas Bayard. Death had brought to an end the career of perhaps the only man who ever lived on a seagoing yacht for 36 years, with steam up day and night, yet never sailed away...