Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from 41 countries, for the 23rd meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. They came in high ships up the harbor and debarked along the drab waterfront, some of them met by friends, many of them by Communists, AntiFascists, any expatriated faction which disrelished what they did at home. But Mayor Hylan's policemen preserved them from harm, and Mayor Hylan himself spoke to them...
...Philadelphia the delegates debarked and were carried to Independence Hall and saw the Liberty Bell and Mayor Kendrick. As they were leaving some Irish Republicans rushed the police guard and almost "got" General Mulcahy, former Minister of the Free State. Afterwards Magistrate Fitzgerald fined one Michael McFadden $13.50, and gave one Daniel O'Rourke 3G days for saying he did not like the U. S. and wanted to go back to Ireland. But the delegates went on to a reception at former Governor Sproul's and then entrained once more, getting to Washington late in the evening...
Widely heralded as a "clean play",--perhaps too widely for its own good--"Seventh Heaven" came to the Tremont Monday night, and before two distinguished guests-of-honor, Lieutenant-Governor Allen and Mayor Curley, well-known apostles of a clean drama, achieved a very considerable triumph. Producer John Golden was there, and after his leading lady, Ann Forrest, had taken several curtain calls at the close of the second act, consented to speak. He outlined his views on stage purity, complimented Boston for its support of the cause, and ended by calling on Mayor Curley to rise and bow from...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City and a trustee of the Fund, also saw the joke: "It's a joke an us and it's a joke on George F. Baker, chairman of the executive committee of the First National Bank. Haw! Haw! Haw! Think of George F. Baker making money for the radical movement...
...officially aghast at the wholesale introduction of taxi drivers' vocabulary into the theatre. Although the board of temperance, etc. as given above, quotes no examples to lend point to its protests, one can easily imagine the identity of the plays which have wrung its collective heart; particularly since Mayor Curley has recently taken it upon himself to disinfect the Boston production of "What Price Glory." The Methodist organization further makes a prediction which is gloomy or heartening, according to the hearer's previous prejudice: namely, that the coming New York theatrical season will be the most profane in American history...