Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Information discovered by the CRIMSON yesterday at the City Hall, together with a hitherto unpublished letter of President Lowell to Mayor Quinn indicates that the University's negotiations to close or alter certain streets in preparation for the new Houses are almost completed. Work on the first two Houses will be started in June...
...graduated from Harvard in 1888, spent the customary year traveling over Europe, returned for a course at the Harvard Law School. He became in 1898 Treasurer of Harvard when it had only $12,000,000. His wise management has raised this to $100,000,000. Twice he was elected mayor of Quincy on a Democratic ticket. And all the while his corporate interests spread out and out until, last week, his resignations as a director or trustee went to 55 concerns including the A. T. & T., American Sugar Refining, Boston and Albany R. R., Amoskeag, Waltham Watch...
Married. Charles Stewart Mott, 54, of Flint, Mich., vice president of General Motors Corp., three times Mayor of Flint, twice a widower; and Mrs. Dee Van Balkon Fuery, 29, of Detroit, Sumatra-born, Paris-educated editor of Bridle and Golfer, Detroit smart-chart; in Toledo, Ohio...
...Lord Mayor of London for 1929 is bustling, up-to-the-minute Colonel Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, but the hoar and mighty Mansion House is just as Dickens knew it, and much as it has been for over 180 years. Trooping in, last week, to dine off the City's plate of gold, went not only H. R. H. but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Empire's choicest assortment of Industrial Tycoons marshaled by their dean, Baron Ebbisham, President of the Federation of British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss...
Food-and-fun-loving Charles Dickens told unctuously in A Christmas Carol how "The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks" for just such a feast as the City of London spread before Edward of Wales last week...