Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schemer. In Philadelphia a policeman's berth is rapidly becoming a mare's nest. Mayor Harry A. Mackey, who has hitherto expressed many wishes to be of more momentous service to District Attorney Monaghan, gloated over a choice scheme. He ordered a complete transfer of the city police. About 4,800 officers found themselves detailed to new precincts. The order came suddenly; no policeman knew beforehand to what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following...
...been indicted. In 1916 he was accused of handling tainted money, but the charge languished and died in Chicago's political limbo. This time the charge was conspiracy to protect gambling and vice resorts on Chicago's vice-ridden South Side. The boodle exacted went to swell Mayor Thompson's campaign fund, it was charged...
Said the arch-Democratic New York World, naming Mayor Walker by name: "This appeal to the narrowest and most ignorant and debased type of patriotic prejudice is as contemptible, and might under certain circumstances become just as sinister, as the appeal to religious prejudice...
...Governor (mayor) of Rome who resigned, last week, is Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, famed because he was visited by and returned the visit of New York's Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Tall, bronzed, cadaverous and silent, Prince Potenziani left his office for the last time without a word to subordinates, merely saluting them in Fascist fashion, with his right arm inclined upward and forward...
While this long and shiny fable professes no Marxian solemnity, it is less silly than most operetta plots. Nor is it without a laugh; Gus Shy (whose grandfather, the late Solomon Scheu, was a onetime Mayor of Buffalo) is very funny as the valet of the hero. The leading lady, Evelyn Herbert, is entirely charming in appearance, although she has a pretty voice...