Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Major Berry withdrew as mediator because Gov. Horton had sent into Elizabethton additional troops "under whose guise the rayon plants are being operated." Mayor Berry sided with the strikers and, with a voice like an organ, called for a $100,000 relief fund to carry the strike through to success...
...Congressman Douglass has so much passion on tap why not use some of it for the benefit of East Boston. Why not blast the Elevated for the way it laid tracks in the Bennington boulevard, destroying the beauty of a highway that cost $750.000? Why not roar at Mayor Nichols for cancelling the taxes of the East Boston Land Co, to the amount of one hundred fifty-two thousand dollars? Why not condemn the outrageous bathing facilities for the little children at Wood Island, where the bathhouses is on the edge of a dirty pool, a breeder of typhoid...
With academic issues above the interest and comprehension of the average New York voter, Mayor Walker will run on his "record," will win on his "popularity"-unless he decides to take up a new line of business...
...Harry Elstner Talbott, dowager of Dayton, Ohio, energetic patroness-manager of Dayton's famed Westminster Choir, now on European concert tour ,TIME, March 25), arose from her chair ast week in Prague to reply to a toast which Prague Mayor Baxa had drunk to he choir in clear Czechoslovakian wine. Said she: "We are patriotic Americans. We don't drink, but thank you just the same." The Westminster Choir-singers are not supposed to use tobacco, either...
...loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death of Mellett, although he had previously been removed from the mayor's office by the Governor of Ohio as a result of an expose in the Canton News of graft and corruption at City Hall; his brother...