Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey Journal on the subjects of city bonds and citizens' taxes. He signed himself "The Jeffersonian Democrat" and soon became a noted public character. When he called for a mass meeting, 1,500 citizens turned out. Then he began attending sessions of the Jersey City Commission, over which Mayor Hague presides...
...come down here every Tuesday and annoy me," warned Mayor Hague...
...distributed cartoons of Mayor Hague and was arrested. He spoke on the steps of Jersey City Hall and was plastered with eggs, tomatoes, green goods. He spoke in front of Mayor Hague's apartment house and was arrested again. His employer dismissed him for engaging in politics but he said: "If I can help end the domination of this machine.and reduce taxes in Jersey City so that I can sell real estate, I will be satisfied." He called Mayor Hague "grafter" and "political coward." Mayor Hague took no action. Then Mr. Burkitt lost his voice. "I guess...
...Jersey City police and firemen held their annual parade and on the curb opposite Mayor Hague's reviewing stand stood voiceless Mr. Burkitt, holding up, in mute salute, a case of eggs...
Lake Forest, Ill., is the Newport, the Pass Christian, the Sewickley, the Pasadena, the Chevy Chase, the Brookline. the Glen Cove, the Haverford, of the Midwest. The socially-eligible, serious-minded Mayor of Lake Forest is Albert B. Dick Jr., whose father makes mimeograph machines and whose alarming younger brother writes poetry. Lately, Mayor Dick had a problem to solve...