Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry A. Mackay, mayor of Philadelphia, creature of the beery Republican machine of U. S. Senator-suspect Vare, took some Congressmen for a tour of the Philadelphia Navy Yard last week. On the way he made a speech, saying: "In Washington they have all the dry members of Congress who make the laws and have legislative authority over the District of Columbia. They could mobilize very easily the greatest force of dry agents in the country. They have the highest administrative authority-the President of the United States-and yet Philadelphia is making a far greater effort than Washington...
...Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, and denounced the Smith campaign fund as the "most corrupt ever used in a Presidential campaign." Senator Heflin wanted the Senate to investigate. He said: "I want to get Jimmy Walker first. He is the slickest eel in the pond." Mayor Walker of New York ignored Senator Heflin. From Iowa came the Smith men's report of expenses: about $1 per precinct...
Governor. Lennington Small, the Governor, was overwhelmingly defeated for renomination by Louis L. Emmerson, who had been Secretary of State, since 1916. Mr. Small's reputation had been thoroughly discredited. Trying to save himself he entered alliance with his oldtime enemy, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago. Mr. Emmerson ran as a champion of virtue-yet Mr. Emmerson was for years a Small henchman and it was he who passed the checks to some Missouri delegates in 1920, causing the scandal that deprived Frank Orren Lowden of that year's presidential nomination...
Chicago. In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage. Deneen and his candidate, Judge John A. Swanson, survived bombs exploded on their doorsteps and routed Crowe utterly. Mayor Thompson had vowed to resign if this happened but, of course, did not resign. The Small-Smith-Thompson-Crowe slogan, "America First," was as thoroughly exposed as the Ku Klux Klan. Libel suits and coroner's inquests were on Thompsonism...
...Barnaby Madden of the House Appropriations Committee was fighting to hold his seat from a Chicago district mostly populated by Negroes. With his long record, unusual ability and dignified conduct, silver-polled Mr. Madden had the sympathy and support of decent citizens. Yet he has inextricably affiliated with preposterous Mayor Thompson, whose war-cries ranged from "Crack King George on the snout!" to "To hell with the Tribune!" Political tickets being what they are in Chicago, Mr. Madden might well have been defeated together with Crowe. His opponent was William L. Dawson, a Negro backed by other Negroes who were...