Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently this quickening question occurred to paunchy but smart M. Edouard Herriot, onetime Prime Minister of France (June, 1924-April, 1925), and still, after many and many years, Mayor of the great industrial city of Lyons. Last week a brand new play by versatile Mayor Herriot was being rehearsed in Paris, and the prognostication was that it would be called: Napoleon, Empereur de I'Ameri...
...foreword to the program of Mayor Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...
...Norway is Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn., and husband of onetime Miss Ingeborg Odegaard of Norseland, Minn. Last week another instance of this sort of thing strikingly appeared in a report of the U. S. Consul-General at Paris, Mr. Alphonse Gaulin, a one-time Mayor of Woonsocket, R. I., where live many French-Canadians...
Married. Ernestine Altman, orphan niece of famed Manhattan Lawyer Max D. Steuer ("Belasco of the Bar"); and Leonard Golding, Manhattan broker; in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. It was the fourth time Mayor Walker had performed such a ceremony. He absented himself from a discussion of city transit unification. Said he: "Since this is another unification job, I don't think I can be accused of shirking the city's business...
...delegating only a certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps it was from this arrangement, which glorified the American love of uniform and title, perhaps from...