Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front cover) It is sometimes said that for prestige and power, for responsibility and reward, the three "biggest" elective offices in the U. S. are: 1) President of the U. S.; 2) Governor of the State of New York; 3) Mayor of the City of New York. Job No. 2 sometimes leads on to Job No. i (Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt). Sometimes it does not lead there (Hughes, Smith). From Job No. 3, however, since the rechartering of New York City (1898), no man has advanced from...
Last week Baron Ebbisham. who as Sir George Rowland Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
Stressing "quality" as the distinctive attribute of British goods, and also the extraordinary diffuseness of the Empire's markets, the onetime Lord Mayor concluded: "We are frequently exhorted to copy American selling practices quite regardless of the fact that high pressure sales campaigns coupled with mass advertising in a closed market are not readily adaptable to the needs of a small island whose traditional outlet for its surplus products has been found in catering to the highly diversified and specialized requirements of markets in every corner of the globe. The central quest to which British energies should be directed...
...gift, a $250,000 clinic, given to Hadassah, international women's Zionist organization, is destined to serve all creeds and colors. Jerusalem's swart Arab Mayor Nashashibi spoke a few words in troubled English, thanked Donor Straus "for often having given to all people in Palestine help and comfort . . . thus creating friendship among Jerusalem's citizens." Great Britain's High Commissioner to Palestine, Sir John Robert Chancellor, spoke too, praised the Zionist movement which is in high favor in Great Britain...
...climax of Tel Aviv's celebration was a parade of the city's native-born children. The first manchild, now 20, proudly presented a bouquet to the city's first and only Mayor, Meyer Diezengoff. Great Britain was represented by Maj. J. E. F. Campbell, District Commissioner of Southern Palestine, who made his speech in fluent Hebrew...