Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor Thompson: "The Tribune can go to hell...
...Solution. Forget trouble and have a few parades, was Mayor Thompson's solution of the Chicago frenzy. He called together representatives of 50 improvement organizations and business clubs, explained to them his plan of a big-improvement -parade -every -other -week until Christmas. Said he: "Holding parades is the only way we can attract the attention of the public to what we are doing. The papers never boost us; they always...
Concerning crime, the fat Mayor said, as he relaxed in bedroom slippers and short-sleeved, open-necked sport shirt in his hotel suite: "Sure, we have crime here. We always will have crime. Chicago is just like any other big city. You can get a man's arm broken for so much, a leg for so much, or beaten up for so much. Just like New York or any other big city-excepting we print our crime here and they...
...Bring in the whole gang. We'll see whether these roughnecks from the East can shoot up Chicago and get away with it." The reason for Chief of Police Hughes' sudden activity was that a prohibition agent had shot and wounded one William Beatty, political worker for Mayor Thompson, in a saloon...
...hearthstone to which he referred was the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, at whose dedication he was making a speech. The new museum stands above the Schuylkill River, on a spot once tenanted by factories and tenements; here it had been envisaged 20 years ago by John E. Reyburn, then mayor of Philadelphia. Ten of its galleries had been completed at a total cost of about $10,000,000, and these, together with ten "period" rooms carefully removed from old houses and reassembled in the museum, were last week opened to the public...