Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor. A dapper, quick-eyed gentleman in an easy chair at the City Hall-a Manhattanite with sporting instincts not unlike Rothstein's except that his gambling is in votes and publicity-could stand it no longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had lost caste when a gambler's murderers were brought to justice slowly during his administration.* So Mayor James John Walker called for his Police Commissioner and gave him a certain number of days to get "action...
Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren was a slender, mild-mannered, long-nosed man whom Mayor Walker had called to the most difficult post in any city administration f after he had made a good record as Commissioner of Accounts. There was no intimation that he was not doing his honest best, but the Rothstein case contained dark dangers for Tammany Hall. The city's Republicans began talking about putting up a strong candidate to run against Mayor Walker next year. It became obvious that "for the good of the service," i.e. Mayor Walker's political welfare, Commissioner Warren...
...President; nevertheless in his party's year of triumph she votes for Al Smith and reelects Senator Walsh by a huge majority. She has close fights for the governorship, but in the legislature one party has an overwhelming majority. Today there is more of a fight between the Republican Mayor and the Republican Governor than between the two opposing parties in the election. Who will solve the mystery of Bay State polities? Perhaps it will be Mayor Gillis of Newburyport in a few years. Certainly public opinion, which Lord Bryce considered, the great force in American public life, does...
...vociferous Mr. Goodwin. Working on the sufficient assumption that an officer soon to be emeritus is safe from slings and arrows, the Governor has been chuckling pretty constantly and very, very sarcastically since November sixth. The appropriately-named Crows' dinner evoked sardonic notes from him, weak epigrams from Mayor Nichols, and much nudging among the other side...
...these enterprises are connected with Wall Street. Biddle, along with social register companions, was accused only a fortnight ago of sharing with Mayor Walker a plot to convert the dismal restaurant which now sits like a spider, webbed with paths, at the centre of Central Park, into a civic banquet hall, thus encouraging patronage and improving the circumstances of the waiters who are employed there by the present lessee, Theatrical Zitell...