Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...removed from his post as Director of Public Safety (Police Commissioner) of Philadelphia. Some months ago, General Butler was granted leave from the Marines in order to take the post and clean up Philadelphia. Friction developed between him and the reigning politicians of the city. It was believed that Mayor Kendrick would not reappoint General Butler. The Law Enforcement League declared that it had evidences of "political corruption all down the line in Pennsylvania." The President turned the matter over to Attorney General Stone, who promised investigation and "appropriate action...
...wrote Mayor Hylan of New York City to his Commissioner of Licenses in regard to unnamed plays. But it was soon learned that one play was What Price Glory? (reviewed in TIME, Sept. 15), a war play; and the objections to the play were contained in a naval intelligence report signed by two navy officers. Extracts from the report...
Engaged. Samuel Lewis Shank, famed Mayor of Indianapolis, to Mrs. Eva Findley of Kendallville...
Died. Representative William SV Greene, 83; in Fall River, Mass., as a result of an accident incurred while trying to chase a dog away from his door. He was one of the oldest members of Congress, and six times Mayor of Fall River...
...academic training as a preparation for politics," he concludes, "is not a strong one, except so far as the university may possibly work for character rather than for scholarship." There is certainly no hint in this biography that Roosevelt, who seven years after graduation was Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, ever participated in what political activity was then known about the Yard...