Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge wrote to Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia: "After having considered the request which you and Senator Pepper laid before me for further extension of the leave of Brigadier General Butler from his duties in the Marine Corps in order that he might continue to serve as head of the Police Department of the City of Philadelphia, I have come to the conclusion that the request ought not to be granted...
...Boston for the first time in 18 years a Republican, Malcolm E. Nichols, was elected Mayor. There were ten candidates in the field (three Republicans and seven Democrats), and Mr. Nichols led a straggling field, with four Democrats in close order behind...
...first outdoor affair of the sort which has been held at the University in many years. Consequently when the plans for the meeting were being made, the problem of lighting arrangements was at first a serious one. It was discovered, however, that Ralph W. Robert, the defeated candidate for Mayor of Cambridge, had on hand a large supply of red fire, which arrived too late for use in his campaign and which he was glad to dispose of at cost, as the next mayoral election does not occur for two years. The purchase was therefore made, and the flaming lights...
...Mayor-elect James A. Walker of New York, who may certainly be classified as a Tammany bird, is among the earliest and perhaps most tactful. Last Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia, he made a speech. Which is reported to have had a political flavor, as one might well have suspected. It is said that he eulogized his own little nest in New York and lamented that the other Democrats of the country had been so reluctant to accept an invitation to share it with him and his fellows. Reference was made, in the course of his speech, to a certain member...
...stopped," says he, "in towns of all sizes, and I found it necessary to invite the mayor, the sheriff, the chief of police or the constable of the town to inspect the exhibition, to prove to them that the pictures really moved...