Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother's departure for Florida that the younger brother appeared in the sunlight. His bald head shone. His eyes gleamed down his firm nose, his moustache bristled. He had been running a couple of farms near Lincoln. Then he decided to run Lincoln. He first became Councilman, next Mayor. He set up a municipal coal pile and brought down coal prices. That coal pile was a feather...
...records of la mairie d'Aigues-Vives (Mayor's office in small village in the Department of Ariège) aver that M. Doumergue was christened Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston. His family have apparently been Calvinists (Protestants) since the 16th Century, when the Picardian Jean Calvin caused a commotion by publishing his Institutio Christianae religionis...
Divorced. Julius Fleischmann (yeast), onetime Mayor of Cincinnati, by Laura Heminway Fleischmann; in Paris. Her friendship for Jay O'Brien, "Broadway (Manhattan) King of Hearts" and onetime husband of Mae Murray and Irene Fenwick, was said to have precipitated the decree...
...Smith 336½ Davis of West Virginia 72½ Underwood 46½ Baker 57; Glass 26; Governor Bryan 3; Robinson 21; Ritchie 16½ Saulsbury 6; Owen 2; Walsh of Montana 1; Will Rogers 1; M. A. Coolidge ½ (or perhaps the trailers at the end might be Senator Copeland, Josephus Daniels, the Mayor of New Orleans, of Chicago or of Montpelier). No one having received the required number of votes, the Secretary will call the roll for the nth ballot...
Montana sent up Mayor Maloney, of Butte, to second Smith. He was too hoarse to speak and Chairman Walsh was obliged to announce what Mr. Maloney would have, if he could have been understood. Then Sam V. Stewart of the same State seconded McAdoo on behalf of "seven-eighths of the delegation...