Word: mayors
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Page 27 of TIME, Aug. 20 reports that Myron Weiss was married to Luba Wies by Rabbi Wise. Is this one of Mayor Walker's "wise-cracks?" Granting that TIME has these names spelled correctly, I submit the Rabbi is the wisest of the three Wises. He got paid for his share of the performance...
...Democrat. But ever since he was publicly tongue-lashed by Alfred Emanuel Smith in their celebrated quarrel of 1919, et seq., the G. O. P. has grown in Hearst favor. Before the nominating conventions this year, the Hearst press boomed Secretary Mellon for President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade Mr. Hearst, if not actually to support Nominee Smith, at least to "lay off" him, to forget Nominee Smith's bitter contempt for him and to bury...
...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson is mayor of Chicago...
...started on the first westbound trip of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. Others who traveled on the first eastbound T. A. T. express were a businesswoman who wanted to catch a boat to France, a physician who was in a hurry to see his sick daughter, the Mayor of Fargo, N. Dak., several railroad executives...
John Jerome Gorman, onetime (1921-23 and 1925-27) Congressman, and chief investigator of history books, wrote a letter to Mayor Thompson about it. "It is a notable victory in the face of tremendous odds," he said. "To you belongs the credit. It. may be that in certain quarters you will not be accorded your credit for this victory . . . but when the permanent imperishable record is written for all time, history will proclaim, your achievements...