Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later he was presented with that very object by M. Léon Meyer, Mayor of Havre. It was a gold pen, nearly a foot long, a half inch in diameter, surmounted by a turquoise, and made by famed Jeweler André Falize of Paris. Visitor Kellogg accepted it graciously, found it heavy, noticed his initials engraved upon it, and read the inscription on its green leather case: Si Vis Pacem Par Pacem (If you wish for Peace, prepare for Peace...
While in Peking Mayor Ho Chi-kung last week ordered all native women under 50 to bob their hair forthwith, or pay a "degeneracy...
Died. Mrs. Ella Traver Allen, mother-in-law of Mayor James Walker of New York; at Clinton, Iowa, before his train reached there; of pernicious anemia...
Whether because he wished to make sure that his friends among the contractors should continue to receive school-building contracts, or because he wished to provide the imbecile proportion of Chicago's population with a practical demonstration of his patriotic campaign cries, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago last April arranged to have his school board oust William McAndrew, Superintendent of Schools, from office-after the Superintendent's term had expired. The charge was insubordination; the evidence in the form of certain history books in use at the public schools and alleged to contain "pro-British" propaganda. With...
...been criticized as an influence against childish patriotism was Gordy's History of the United States; from this was deleted a picture called "The Resplendent Red Coats"; to it was added a portrait of George Washington. New history books, not "pro-British" ones, were named and the loud Mayor's most noteworthy service to Chicago's education was complete...