Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indianapolis, Ind., a town of much political consciousness and confusion, was committed to Daylight Saving Time by its City Council. Its mayor then vetoed the ordinance. But last week the City Council overrode the veto, six votes to three. Effective in the repassage was Novelist-Councilman Meredith Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, Otherwise Phyllis, etc., etc.), now serving his first term. Mr. Nicholson reported that he had received a telegram from Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, declaring that "the movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour...
...collection of short stories by Owen Wister '82, has been published under the title "When West Was West". Walter Lippman '09, the editor of the New York World, has just published a group of lectures on the Scopes Trial and Mayor Bill Thompson of Chicago in "American Inquisitors...
Although no one apparently made any accusations. Boston has been strangely agitated of late about its next-to-Godliness. The matter seems to have had its roots in the declarations, anent the appearance of his city's policemen, of Lynn's Mayor Bauer, who was rudely removed from Page One last winter to make space for "Bossy" Gillis...
...dozen years ago Joseph P. Kennedy, Boston Irish boy just turning his 20's loved to hear Sweet Adeline. The song was the favorite of Boston's recent (1906-07, 1910-14) Mayor, John Francis Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald would sing it in the front parlor of his folksy white home in Dorchester, Boston suburb. Young Kennedy, outside on the porch hammock would give ear and, with him, Rose Fitzgerald. Or while her father's heart pined for "Adeline," they would stroll into Franklin Park, past the monkey house toward the quiet place of the bear pits. Rose...
...April 30) his first long distance race, his shoes had to be cut away from his swollen and bleeding feet. Clarence DeMar won at Boston. Ray finished with glazed eyes, a haggard face. At Long Beach, DeMar finishing seventh, was haggard, Ray happy. He kissed his hand to the Mayor as he crossed the finish line. "See those feet" he said in the locker room, crinkling his toes, "no blisters on them, eh boy? No sir. I feel as smooth as silk. Now that I have earned a place on the Olympic team I will win the Olympic Marathon...