Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor did not have to pay anything to watch the rich dine in their park. To point the issue even more, on the day the Casino opened, 93 ordinary citizens were haled to court, fined for eating their lunches on newspapers spread on the grass of their park. Onetime Mayor John Frances ("Red Mike") Hylan, again a candidate for that office, was quick to make use of the political potentialities of the new Casino. "A night club for the 400 in Central Park." roared he over the radio, "would never have been permitted during my administration...
...features of Mayor Walker the previous week showed a jolly individual who might be a charter member of the Association for the repeal (or nonenforcement) of the Volstead...
...British families. It is read in every quarter of the globe. It was Punch that first mourned the death of Lincoln; that published the famed cartoon, "Dropping the Pilot," when the young German Kaiser forced Bismarck to resign; that opposed the Irish Home Rulers; that grew most exercised over Mayor Thompson's (Chicago) anti-British antics...
Meanwhile, the State investigation of Mayor Hague prepared to go forward. He had already twice defied his inquisitors to pry into his "private affairs." Well circulated among Republican politicians in the State was a report that he would defy them once more, send his case hopelessly to the U. S. Supreme Court, then slip quietly away to England, where he had bought a permanent home and banked a fortune...
Great was the celebration in Windsor when the royal motorcade drove through High Street. Pinafored schoolchildren waved flags and screamed excitedly. The merry housewives of Windsor showered rose petals on King George's sober limousine. At the foot of Queen Victoria's statue stood the black-robed mayor and red-robed Town Councilors...