Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor James M. Curley of Boston announced that the Chicago Opera Company will not be permitted to perform Strauss' Salome in Boston during the coming season. This reaffirms a decision which forebade the giving of Salome a year...
...yesterday in the office of Telfair Minton, ex-head of the Cambridge chapter of the Klan, a self-styled Harvard graduate who refused to allow his name to be used stated that Monday night a meeting had been held in Boston, attended, on his statement by 300 "Harvard men". "Mayor Curley said he could stop it," he declared, "and the newspapers said nothing about it, but the meeting was held and it was the most successful of the year...
...Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyons, Socialist member of the Chamber of Deputies, who recently paid a visit to the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 1), again set foot on his native soil. Said he: " The Americans are a magnificent race-beautiful women and fine men." He kept his political impressions to himself and the only criticism to which he gave vent was of the U. S. customs system, which he described as " a regular inquisition," He was loud in praise of U. S. labor-saving devices...
...Sundry personages came to the aid and comfort of Dr. Van Dyke, including George B. McClellan, former Mayor of New York, now professor of economic history at Princeton; George H. Kendall, President of the New York Bank Note Co., a collector; Peter Thelen, Belgian antiquarian. Others ridiculed the charges...
Roscoe C. ("Fatty") Arbuckle, deposed cinema clown: " I was scheduled to appear in a vaudeville act at a Boston theatre. After certain citizens had protested against my appearance, a censorship board (headed by Mayor Curley) came to view me. The censors saw no occasion for acting against me-though they said ' the presence in the city of the individual . . . was in no sense pleasing or desirable.' In a statement from the stage I announced that at the suggestion of a Boston minister I had decided to cancel my engagement and return to Los Angeles...