Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notorious Communist Mayor of Douarnenez in Finistere is dead. He was known throughout France for his bolshecratic manner of meting out Jus- tice. At his funeral, Bolsheviki paraded, waved red flags. Priests, called in by the family to officiate at the burial, declined to countenance the carrying of the flags: bitter, bad words from the Communists; hard, harsh tones from the Priests. A compromise was finally reached. The Communists retired to the end of the procession with their flags, while the Priests and nonCommunists marched ahead...
...Klan fight by no means ended at the Democratic Convention in Manhattan. Frank X. Schwab, who is not a steel man but Mayor of Buffalo and Supreme General of the Knights of St. John (Catholic), addressed his order at a business session. Partly he denounced, partly he seemed to threaten. Said...
...Klan would agree with him in denouncing all these objects, possibly qualifying the objurgation of divorce. The Klan probably would also be at one with Mayor Schwab on the question of "a strong military department...
...noticed that the President of the Bar Association was not exclusively the guest of the Lord High Chancellor and the Benchers of the Inns of Court. He was to be "wined and dined" by the King and Queen, the Lord Mayor and Alderman of the City of London, the U. S. Ambassador and by many other notables. At all these functions he was to meet the statesmen of the world and to have unrivalled opportunities for exchanging viewpoints. Said The Sunday Times of London: "He could not find himself in England at a more opportune moment." Certainly it seems hard...
...other sessions, other speakers: Winston Churchill, Francis Sisson, Sir Lawrence Weaver, Sir Charles Higham, Stanley Baldwin, Sir Robert Home, Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, Sir Louis Arthur Newton (Lord Mayor of London), Stanley Resor, Edward A. Filene, E. W. Beatty, Viscount Leverhulme, E. T. Meredith, Harry Tipper...