Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tingled in the bosoms of a group of smiling ladies and gentlemen in Cleveland one night last week as they gathered in the smart offices of their city manager, William Rowland Hopkins. That day 97,000 Cleveland voters had chosen between city management and a return to the old mayor-and-ward-politics system. Manager Hopkins and friends were receiving election returns. Manager Hopkins was winning. A little moved by his success, he strolled to an open window, gazed long at a bright moon. The tight lines of his face relaxed. Coughing for attention, he spoke in blank verse...
...Acting Mayor Walmsley: We'll take the matter under advisement. I want the authenticity of these names checked first...
...Acting Mayor Walmsley: Meeting adjourned...
Next day Acting Mayor Walmsley declared: "Anarchy must cease." In answer two street cars were dynamited. Labor leaders called upon the Council to apologize, to repudiate Gus Williams as a "red." The Council proclaimed the attack as "the most unheard of demonstration in the history of the city," ordered more policemen recruited...
Died. Joseph A. Warren, 47, of New York, predecessor to New York Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen; at Greenwich, Conn. Longtime friend of Mayor James John Walker, his college mate at St. Francis Xavier College and New York Law School. Mr. Warren was broken in health since he "resigned" last year (TIME, Dec. 24) after failing to solve the still unsolved killing of Gambler Arnold Rothstein...