Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Mayor." After the cheers and applause for the keynoter, Senator Harrison had the pleasure of introducing "a great Mayor of a great City in a great State...
...Mayor John F. Hylan of New York City came forward and carefully read a long typewritten address, as the perspiring audience gradually left the hall...
...This Is Politics. This comedy of a small city campaign for Mayor has obviously been offered to catch the Democratic National Convention trade. It should succeed fairly well in its purpose, unless the delegates after each performance at Madison Square Garden are too abysmally satiated with modern statesmanship to see it exposed on the stage...
...underlying sentiment is that women who enter politics expecting to remain undefiled guardian angels will find themselves tarred with the same brush as the hitherto ruling sex. Conveying this thought is a young wife who is virtually dragged by the heels into running for Mayor by enthusiastic women friends, who feel that the town's politics need dusting off. In endeavoring to wage a clean campaign she commits most of the sins known to professional office-seekers. The author has very astutely led her to lie, cheat and practically embezzle, while bit by bit her ideals are chipped away...
...exchange of views took place between President and Mayor. According to the Elysee communique, no 'disagreement was expressed upon questions of policy. But when the President asked M. Herriot to form a Cabinet the latter raised the question of the President's resignation. M. Millerand declared he could not discuss the question?he had been elected President of France for seven years and he intended to remain President for that period and to defend to the last the French Constitution which had fixed at seven years the Presidential mandate...