Word: mayors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mayor Robert Eugene Burt, Dallas, Tex., Democrat. Reason: Prohibition...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Wet Republican Mayor of Chicago. Reason: "Harmony...
Sportsmen, cinemaddicts joined the mayor's handshakers to welcome the Italian soccer team arriving on the Duilio. Reasons: They are the European champions of this year's Olympics†; Pietro Pastore, of their number, is reputedly indistinguishable from the late Rudolph Valentino...
...about to leave Rome for Canada. But Cardinal Cerretti, who intends to cross the U. S. from the Eucharistic Conference at Sydney, Australia, may wander about the states all he pleases. He will not arrive at San Francisco until after the election. Prince Rebuffed. The Governor (mayor) of Rome, Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, was refused an annullment of his marriage by the Tribunal of the Sacred Rota,* which rejected his contention that he is not really the husband of Princess Potenziani because their marriage ceremony was "performed without her full consent...
...Died. Captain William Rule, 89, oldest active editor in the U. S., founder (1885) and publisher of the Knoxville Journal; of appendicitis; in Knoxville, Tenn. Republican and veteran of the Union Army, he was nevertheless elected mayor of Knoxville in 1873 and, in 1898, caused Tennessee to enact an anti-duel law in defiance of the oldtime code of honor, became the man whose birthday Knoxville considered "next to Christmas" in importance...