Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorities condemned the painting. Should peasants mourn their woes where privilege looked on? They displayed it in public with brands of white chalk smeared over its surface. Furious, Painter Bakst renounced the Court, left Russia with his wife, who had been Mlle. Tretiakov, daughter of a former Mayor of Moscow...
...Boston, last summer, one "Lafayette Mulligan," unidentified jokester, posed as Mayor Curley's social secretary, bestowed the keys of the city upon Edward of Wales. Last week, two distinguished Manchurian citizens had an audience with Mayor Curley but came away without city keys. Asked if he had not forgotten something, said Mayor Curley: "No, . . . not with all this competition from Lafayette Mulligan. I guess I'll wait till he dies before I give away another...
...school teacher and was for 17 years a persuasive pedagog. In the exercise of his profession, he was imbued with some of that idealism that lit the soul of the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson. But in Mexico of that day he was not understood. From the position of Mayor of Fronteras, the proud Mexican aristocrats forced him. Not a public office was open to him. This drove him to the "soap-box"; and his so-called Radical speeches inflamed the workers to red-hot enthusiasm for him, his enemies to bitter hatred...
...Mayor E. W. Quinn of Cambridge will be the principal speaker when students from foreign countries at the University and M. I. T. gather at 8 o'clock this evening in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. to meet Cambridge people, according to an announcement made last night by W. B. Macomber '26, chairman of the Foreign Students' Committee of the Brooks House...
...political career," Mayor Quinn said. "If you were all my boys, I would say. 'Don't go into politics. Go to college and then into business...