Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shock of the disaster extended not only throughout the U. S. but to Europe. The Lord Mayor of London telephoned to Mayor John Daniel Marshall of Cleveland to express sympathy. The editors of the London Sketch and Daily News telephoned to Managing Editor Thomas Aaron Robertson of the Cleveland News to get the details of the tragedy for their papers...
...once a little aristocrat among U. S. cities, now a sooty relic teeming with foreign blood, low politics and eager business men whose affairs are deeply complicated by those politics, is governed by a board of five Directors elected by the People. The Director of Public Affairs is elected Mayor by his fellow Directors. For many a tumultuous week, Jersey City voters have been exhorted to change Directors. A Reform-Fusion organization has been fighting bitterly to turn out Frank L. Hague, Tsar of the North Jersey democracy, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, three times (for the past...
...Mayor Hague has been under investigation by a Republican legislature at Trenton. The charges against him have been municipal graft and corruption. The potent Jersey Journal has raked him with editorial criticism. Chief exhorter against him has been one James Burkitt, a rangy Alabaman and self-styled "Jeffersonian Democrat." Not a candidate himself, "Jeff" Burkitt sought to "sell good government" to Jersey City. His loud, vote-swaying cry was against the exorbitant taxation which has driven many a manufacturer out of Jersey City during the Hague...
Last week came the election. Poker-faced Mayor Hague and his Democrats won. But his usual majority of 7 to 1 was reduced...
Peace did not follow the election. Burkitt declared: "I am the most disappointed man in New Jersey." Said the Mayor: ". . . Deeply grateful . . . splendid vote . . . personal enmity . . . slanderers silenced . . . return to peace and prosperity...