Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicagoans groaned again to think they ever re-elected Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson. Chicago had had no such deficit since 1917, when the first two years of Thompsonism necessitated a special bond issue. One unprovided item was $56,700 for removing dead animals from Chicago's streets this year. This item is traditional on city budgets, usually as a fat morsel of graft. In the case of gang-ridden Chicago, people interpreted the phrase "dead animals" as a euphemism for something far more grisly than graft...
...into the largest and perhaps the most blatant exhibit at the convention. Huge electric signs gleamed: "CHAMPION OF THE WORLD," "WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER." Printed matter told how the Tribune had licked Mayor Thompson & friends; how, because of the Tribune, "Chicago can again walk proudly among the cities!-and the class in advertising may now step up and learn a lesson from the politicians...
Laymen. Publishers also heard fine words from the mouths of Rev. Samuel Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp.; Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher; Mayor James J. Walker of New York City; M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Corp. The only backslapper at the convention was a onetime blackface comedian named Frank Colton who was hired to parade through corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria as Maj. Amos Hoople, comic strip character syndicated...
...name is Jimmie Walker," replied the rascal, unaware, doubtless, that this name belongs to Manhattan's clever, handsome & well-dressed mayor. By no means amused at such an impertinent coincidence, the immigration official ordered Chance Stow and Jimmie Walker to hurry back to Barbados, whence they had come...
...speaker was Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed mayor of Newburyport, Mass...