Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flurry was caused by a letter from Mayor Curley (Democrat) of Boston to Senator David Ignatius Walsh. The Mayor asked for an investigation of the Coolidge campaign fund contributions on the basis of the following paragraph from a letter sent out by the chairman of the "Pipe Fitting and Allied Material Group" in Massachusetts to make collections...
...lived up to expectations by turning into a news event. It had been preceded by a storm of protest from various sections of the metropolis and the U. S. at large, though nothing like a race riot seemed likely. At the first performance, the Provincetown Theatre group announced that Mayor Hylan had refused to sanction the appearance of black and white children in the first scene of the play, designed to show that with children there is no color line...
Later the Mayor explained that he had not studied the play, but had refused a permit for the employment of the youngsters ? formally approved by the Gerry Society ? on the ground that children below 16 were required, for whom a special permit was necessary. The producers later sent him an invitation to attend...
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: "In a letter to the Brooklyn Teachers' Association I advocated an Alaskan-California-Canadian Rockies tour by Brooklyn teachers. Said I: 'The glint of crystalline rocks . . . the indescribable beauty . . . the splashing waterfalls, the lakes . . . and the nestling homes in the crotches of tree limbs of our feathered friends restore to the wanderer that sense of possession of the instinctive heritage of all mankind. . . 'Summer or winter, day or night The woods are an ever new delight...
Although M. Briand fishes peacefully in Brittainy, and Mayor Herriot "rusticates" near his native town, the success of the political revolution in France has scarcely been assured. Apparently, the overthrow of the Right was as unexpected by the Left as by everone else; and the fabrication of a new government comes as an unanticipated contingency to the victorious by bewildered Liberals. It is not improbable that the Left will discover the overthrow the ruling party by a coalition of Cissatisfied, rebellious elements a far simpler matter than the welding of these elements into a homogeneous mass capable of retaining power...