Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pays $25,000 a year. Moreover it is a responsible position?Mayor of a great municipality. Its greatness can be measured in a number of ways: in area 314.75 square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption...
...John F. Hylan sat in the Mayor's chair?Hylan, onetime motorman on the L, which has its terminus across the square from the City Hall; Hylan, dubbed "Red Mike," with his red hair only partly dimmed from sitting several years on a Judge's bench; Hylan, whom all dailies except the Hearst papers made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests...
...next to the last day of his term Mayor Hylan resigned in order to get a pension of $4,205.99 a year. He however went to his office next day while the President of the Board of Aldermen was technically Mayor. Then Mr. Hylan made his adieux to the City Hall. For 30 days, he said, he would rest and consider, then he would announce what his future would be. At the inauguration of Mayor Walker, speaking by invitation, he said...
...second was Jan. 1, 1918, when I was inducted into the office of Mayor of the greatest city...
...third was the day on which the great responsibility that a Mayor must assume was ended, and that is practically today...