Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Rowland Blades, recent (1926-27) Lord Mayor of London, and esteemed head of a firm of stationery manufacturers and banknote printers...
...some of her fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John Wanamaker's daughter, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, whose husband is the new Mayor of Palm Beach...
Sacred are the relations of host and guest. Recently a trinity of hosts-the City of New York, its Mayor and President Coolidge-entertained Prince Ludovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, the tall, cadaverous Governor of Rome. Last week Guest Potenziani returned to Italy and on landing at Naples spoke as follows of his hosts...
...Mayor Walker of New York is a real old friend...
...measure was repassed and Mayor L. Ert Slack of Indianapolis honored it and ordered the city's clocks set ahead an hour, which was done. But then it was discovered that, though one of the distinguished City Councilmen has written successful novels, the City Council had written an impotent ordinance. There was no enforcement clause. Indianapolitans, including cinema exhibitors, kept their clocks as they chose with impunity. Time passed through Indianapolis on uneven feet. Confusion reigned. Lawyers puzzled...