Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Andrew Jackson was U. S. President. All good people were worried about the rise of Mormonism. Manhattan Island had streets as far uptown as Fourteenth. New York elected its first mayor by popular vote. Frances Wright, "that bold blasphemer and voluptuous preacher of licentiousness" stirred audiences with her free talk, caused the defeat of a Tammany candidate for the legislature. Washington Square had just been changed from Potter's Field to a public park. Imprisonment for debt was abolished that year...
...three-day festival, including a boat trip around Manhattan, dinners, speeches galore. A Democrat since he voted for Franklin Pierce in 1852, Mr. Voorhis fought William Marcy Tweed and the "Old Tammany," received his first office, Commissioner of Excise, in 1873 under the reform administration of Mayor Havemeyer. He was long the city's Police Commissioner. Continuously in public service since, his jobs have always been appointive...
Last week a seam-faced little man on crutches moved up and down hot Manhattan streets. Every so often he stopped a pedestrian, asked questions. "Do you think it right for girls to appear bare-legged in the office?" "Do you favor Mayor Walker for re-election?" Answers received, a photograph posed for, the little man would smile happily and hobble on. It was a new role for him. From 1919 to 1927 he, William David ("Ernest Willie") Upshaw, had been the interviewed, not the interviewer, as he hitched into the offices and halls of Washington's Capitol. Then...
...Fortnight ago Director William H. Allen of the New York Institute of Public Service petitioned New York's Governor Roosevelt to remove Mayor Walker from office on the ground of incompetency. Playfully temporized the Governor: "I have received so many letters in the last few days asking for the removal of every public official from the President of the U. S. down to, dog, catcher that it will take me a few days to read them...
...Ireland "a few practical suggestions to ponder." "The ideal of your association" he explained, "is to bring people together in mutual friendship and mutual understanding. The methods of an organization like this should be adjusted not to human reasoning, but to human nature.* I have an invitation from the Mayor of Sudbury to go down there to receive the freedom of the town. Sudbury is where my people came from centuries ago. That invitation appealed to me; it touched something in my heart. I want to go to Sudbury where my people came from, and it occurs to me that...