Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scissoring hips, jutting elbows and wild necks. It is gone now, its very memory erased by a lithe barbaric jungle shiver, to which the gentle city of Charleston lent its name, and which has now brought a savage and quite inappropriate glory to the city of Charleston. Recently Mayor Thomas Stoney of Charleston, the Mayor's wife and ten members of his cabinet journeyed to Chicago to attend the first national Charleston championship contest, and to award the silver loving cups to the winners. The Mayor said that this dance had originated among reveling black bucks and yellow girls...
These warped souls, or rather the "leaders", have only one motive, namely to get their hands on money, in other words, to capitalize on the stupidity of people; and they seem to have been given the encouragement of the mayor of this city, unfortunately. E. Y. C. made something out of the Klan, everybody down here seems to be in it, the mayor, governor and most of the judges; so now he is capitalizing on the Christian religion. Why don't you make him pay for his advertising...
John F. Hylan was Mayor of New York until 1926. At present he is on a vacation in Florida. After a time he plans to resume the practice of law. Meanwhile the New York Evening Graphic, Macfadden sheetlet, is publishing some of his memoirs. In an installment last week he described the visit of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians to Manhattan...
...capable of deporting herself in any place as the occasion demands. . . . With all her duties as a good wife and mother, as well as her special interest in her grandchildren, little John Hylan Sinnott and Marie Louise, she was always mindful of her duties as the wife of the Mayor, and few women probably read more than she does or are better posted regarding politics and public affairs or the proper conduct of men and women on all occasions...
...Standish, 68, great-great-great-great-great- great-grandson of Captain Myles Standish of the Mayflower, whose proxy wooing of Priscilla Alden occurred after the death of his first wife and before he married his second; at Essex Fells, N. J., of heart disease. Descendant Standish twice served as Mayor of Glen Ridge, N. J., and carried on an export-import business in Manhattan...