Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cars lumbered through the streets. They shielded reporters. In steel helmets, with gas-masks strapped to their shoulders, strikers paraded past the mill, two by two. The Passaic Chamber of Commerce asked Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey to "mediate" the strike. An inventor, one Edward Moore, offered Mayor McGuire of Passaic his "centrifugal riot gun, which shoots 4,000 shots a minute and is effective at a mile and a half." The offer was not accepted. The police did not try to stop the grey-faced marchers on Dayton Street. No women were clubbed...
Michigan has had a number of body blows in politics, and was drowned by Protestant votes which elected an anti-Klan Catholic mayor of Detroit last fall. In a few cities it still hangs...
There came to Manhattan a special delegation from Kansas City, a delegation that included Mayor Beach and many substantial citizens. There were taxi-loads of flowers. There were 10,000 people beside themselves to get into the Metropolitan Opera House, and arrogant mounted police out to control them. There were more than 5,000 people turned away, nine of whom took their disappointment so ill-humoredly that they were arrested for being disorderly. There were those who offered $100, $150 for a seat, one man who paid $25 for admission to stand. And through it all, a person...
...prima donna, was holding court on a little platform set against a dense background of flowers. Cameramen were first to be received. They photographed her alone, they photographed her with Otto Hermann Kahn, President of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company; with Otto Hermann Kahn and Mayor Albert I. Beach of Kansas City; with Otto Kahn and Mayor Beach and Father Talley and Mother Talley and Sister Talley and a few favored delegates. There were speeches and a silver plaque presented by W. Frank Gentry in behalf of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. There were pressmen...
...fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys, soda-jerkers, danced with their minnies from the sticks, sundae-sallies with naughty eyes. Mayor Stoney gave the prize to Freddie Danidel and Anna Duvall of Memphis as the best from the South; to Thomas Nolan, Shelba Singer of Pittsburgh, for the East; to Donald Wilson, Louise Stoner of Wichita, for the West; to Lyman Curry, Katherine Osbourne of Chicago, for the North...