Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This speaker was Mayor Walter A. Sims of Atlanta, who, with fitting reference to the late William Jennings Bryan, straightway declared the satisfaction it gave him to welcome to his city any movement that had for its object "the fostering of the religious beliefs of our fathers." When he had done, an Indianian, Mr. Roscoe Carpenter of Indianapolis, was conducted to the rostrum, where he soon pronounced the purpose for which the company was gathered...
...mile trophy is presented by Ex-Mayor Curley of Boston, and has been won in the past four years by such stars as Joie Ray, Patrick Mahoney, Lloyd Hahn, and Leo Larrive. Larrivee is expected to run this year. In the dash events Hubert Houben, the German sprinter, and Frank Hussey, national 100-yard champion, are entered. All other events except the two relay races are to be handicap affairs...
...electric bulbs outside Promoter Tex Rickard's vast new sport arena in Manhattan blazoned a great name. Dapper dandies called up shingled dames and told them. Mayor Walker promised to occupy a ringside box. Ancient hooligans of the Roaring Forties cadged the entrance fee. Gorgeous Georges Carpentier motored over from his hotel. The bulbs were flaring forth: "Fitzsimmons...
Died. Martin Behrman, 61, Mayor of New Orleans; in New Orleans, of heart trouble...
...believe that Harvard men can render no more important service to their city, in time of peace, than to interest themselves actively in the affairs of their cities," says Murray Seasongood '00, recently elected Mayor of Cincinnati, in a special article written for the CRIMSON. The article continues...