Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment it seemed that this last scene would be too much for him. Ragged banners still flew in Albany, their legends, "Smith for President," mocked and cancelled by wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...
...ever lived who held so high a place in the affection of the people of this city," Mayor Thacher said, for them...
...assail the Whispering Campaign and to make insinuations about the Hoover "Britishness." He referred to Hoover's not voting in the U. S. until after he was 40. "They talk about me being late. Well, there's one thing, anyway, I wasn't late at," said Mayor Walker...
...Mayor Harry A. Mackey who was passive for a while, who scorned the idea that municipal extortionists could exist among the police or elsewhere. But at length he ordered a wholesale transfer of the police force. He compared the reports of new and old incumbents of the precincts. On the basis of later Grand Jury reports he suspended from office almost one half of the executive police officers-three out of five inspectors, 18 out of 43 captains. These men had been found "unfit to hold any position in the municipal government." Their bank accounts revealed "unexplained wealth" amounting...
...Mayor of Chicago been in the McMillin Academic Theatre at Columbia University last week he might well have yelped and yarred in anti-British fury...