Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he went to school, Manhattan's Mayor James John Walker, world-famed playboy, pulled little girls' pigtails, set tacks on teacher's chair. Last week he was 48. In front of his own City Hall, he turned in a false fire alarm...
...apparatus arrived. No arrest was made. The Mayor was merely testing a new device calculated to make life more difficult for false alarmists, who, in New York City alone, call for firemen 8,000 times a year, at $300 a call. When Mayor Walker turned the handle a siren screeched at passersby, a camera on the pole over-head snapped his picture several times for the Rogues Gallery. Photographers pleaded with him to do it again...
...Guardia, who aspires despite a number of Irish politicians to be Mayor of New York, was not to be talked out of his contention in behalf of Columbus. His objections were overcome only when Congressman Burtness consented to strike the whole preamble out of his resolution, to leave the question of America's discovery, so far as the House of Representatives was concerned, wide open. Grinning with satisfaction, Congressman La Guardia sat down and the resolution was passed...
...Waco. Tex., in 1916, children were let out of school to join a mob of 15,000 led by the Mayor and the Chief of Police. They burned a defective...
...West, fat actress, was told to close Diamond Lil in Detroit last week because the play was "silly and stupid, holding no moral and teaching no lesson." Later Mayor John Christian Lodge relented, declared: "The show will be given a chance to revise itself...