Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the 88 beauties were transported to Manhattan. They and their chaperones were housed on an entire floor of the Waldorf-Astoria. They were taken in a fleet of taxicabs to see the Acting Mayor. They were paraded, with three bands, up Fifth avenue. Then, in Madison Square Garden, famed scene of great fistic encounters, the 88 beauties assembled for the Mineralava Valentino Beauty Contest, afterwards known as The National Beauty Contest, while Valentino picked...
...most successful stories these British authors have given us are in humorous vein. "The Mayor's Dovecote", by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, is an amusing tale, a pleasant revival of human nature in fiction. "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty", by Stacy Aumonier, contains a situation upon which Leonard Merrick might have congratulated himself. This is another story that inevitably suggests a much greater writer; would that Mr. Merrick had put his finger...
Samuel M. Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works: "In a public meeting in the office of the Mayor of Philadelphia, sentiment was overwhelmingly opposed to making the proposed Sesqui -Centennial Exposition (in Philadelphia, 1926) an exhibition of international proportions. The vote was 403 to 43. Opposition to the international project was led by E. T. Stotesbury and myself. The fair will therefore be held exclusively under the auspices of Philadelphia...
Entertainment will be furnished by groups of students from each university, and speeches will be made by the Hon. J. Weston Allen '96 former attorney general of the state of Massachusetts and Edward W. Quinn, Mayor of Cambridge. It is expected that more than 50 nationalities will be represented by the foreign students who will gather at the reception...
Married. Rolla Wells, 67, Mayor of St. Louis (1901-9), Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (1912-16), to Mrs. Carlotta Clark Church, in St. Louis...