Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curio collectors will be wide awake during the next week or more because the Washington Elm on Garden Street will be cut down, if the action of the Cambridge park commissioners and Mayor Edward W. Quinn at a recent meeting is followed out. Although the tree will be carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska, chips, perhaps sawdust, will be available for the nervy collector. The tree has been pronounced dead by a tree specialist and its overhanging limbs a menace. The seal of the city...
According to an order which Mayor Curley will present to the City Council next week, $34,000 from the income of the Parkman Fund will be devoted to improvements on Franklin Park. Of this amount all except $3,000 will, according to the mayor's proposal, be expended in bettering the golfing facilities at the Park. The specific items for which the money is needed include repairs to the Locker Building, seats, loam and sod for the fairways, and general repairs on buildings...
Gertrude Atherton, novelist: " My book, Black Oxen, which revolves about the metamorphosis of an elderly woman into a frisky flapper through a rejuvenating glandular operation, was removed from the shelves of public libraries in Rochester, N. Y., by Mayor Van Zandt, at the request of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The reason given was: ' Unfit for the minds of young people...
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " Still prostrate from a six-week illness which twice nearly proved fatal, I was conveyed from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., to my Brooklyn home. Said I: 'Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
...Cutler vs. Webster, Monte mayor vs. Huntington, Richimeyer vs. Wyman, C. W. Johnson vs. Rounds, Walz vs. Fetter, Hubard vs. Allen, Guld vs. F. W. Straus, Schwarts vs. Kunitz...