Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salem Jail, brash and blustering as ever, marched Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed roughneck Mayor of Newburyport, Mass., having served his two-month term for violating ordinances of the Newburyport town council (TIME, Sept 3 et seq.'). Newsmen surrounded him. After "bawling out one of them for a story he had not liked. His Honor joined his friends, the Newburyport fire chief and superintendent of streets, and drove away to get refreshments and see a football game...
...agreed to resume work on the old wage scale pending a decision by Minister of the Interior Doctor Severing as to whether or not their wages should be rightfully increased. C. Pan-Germans were mightily cheered, last week, by news from Saarbrucken in the French occupied Saar. The local mayor had celebrated the decennial of French occupation, it appeared, by delivering a fiery public speech in the course of which he bellowed...
...answer the above question Prime Minister Benito Mussolini moved last week with cold and drastic vigor. In a circular letter received by each Italian podesta (mayor) the Dictator commanded: "Decrowd your city...
...worth of diamonds illicitly into the U. S. The jeweler, Morris Landau, was unregenerate on discovery; his daughter Frances had hysterical remorse; the traffic policeman appeared innocently bewildered and spoke of the many important friends he had, among them William B. Leeds Jr. and "Stitch" McCarthy, the so-called Mayor of Chinatown, Manhattan. Had they happened first upon anyone of these, the detectives might have remained baffled; but instead, after many sleuthing trips across the Atlantic, during which he had amused them with songs and served them with refreshments, they had come to suspect the Chief Steward of the Berengaria...
...Wall Street and the first of his grand associates. At the time when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable financial prodigies, the organization of the American...