Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three flights of steps to the colonnaded City Hall marched several hundred strikers and sympathizers. At a mass meeting the night before they had heard Gus Williams, Recorder of Mortgages, Labor candidate for Mayor, urge them to "storm the City Hall until your demands are satisfied." Within the massive stone building, they turned down the righthand corridor, pressed into the Council Chamber, overflowed its 150 chairs, jammed themselves against the creaky wooden railings. With George Washington and Andrew Jackson looking down from the walls, they booed the police, cheered their leaders, itched for action. Behind a table sat the Council...
Absent from his august seat was Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The tribulations of the strike had worn him to a frazzle, threatened him with a nervous breakdown. On "leave of absence" he had gone to his summer home at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 50 miles away, to loll in the warm waters of the Gulf...
Casual, amused observers wondered if the distinction is worth making. Perhaps it is in Colon. By edict of Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes no young woman classified as an "entertainer" will be allowed to work in a Colon cabaret without a health certificate from Dr. Carlos Beiberach, Dr. Peralta Ortega, or Dr. Daniel R. Oduber. Bona fide "artists" will sing, dance or perform comic numbers uncertified...
...Baltimore's Mayor Broening went the rounds, congratulated the sitters, told them: "Stamina and grit are essential in the great struggle of life...
...than 1,000 people crowded into Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week to attend a banquet in honor of a Chiropractor. Otto Hermann Kahn, financier and music patron, lauded the Chiropractor. So did William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. So did dapper James John Walker, mayor and candidate for mayor of New York City. Finally the Chiropractor himself arose and talked about ''the mechanization of the art." To the art of kneading and pummeling spines he did not refer, but to the art of Music. For the speaker was Joseph N. Weber, who, even...