Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word that comes hard to New York's Mayor James John Walker. One day last week he was quite incapable of uttering it when a Non-Partisan Committee of 682 New York citizens waited upon him at the City Hall, asked him to stand for reelection...
...months Mayor Walker had been keeping city voters in a state of theoretical suspense as to his candidacy.* He had let it be known that he was considering a return to private life to get rich, that he had many an offer to capitalize his personality. Last week he put all his offers aside, accepted the "call of public duty...
...length lead. Trinity answered, drew level. Both shells were even 150 yards from the finish. Both spurted. Browne & Nichols spurted fastest. That afternoon they raced the Thames Rowing Club, won by a length and a quarter. They were later to be presented to Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, the Lord Mayor of London, King George. Browne & Nichols is almost exclusively a Harvard preparatory school. Harvard men last week rejoiced at the prospect of a sequence of Harvard rowing victories after the Henley champions matriculate...
...York City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
...Grenfell, Baron Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly once a month.* Last week he and the Pilgrims...