Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above deeds and why remained a mystery-the usual Chicago bombing mystery. Posters were tacked on fences and poles throughout the city, advertising $65,000 in rewards for information concerning the Deneen and Swanson pineapplers. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe and others were sponsors of the rewards. Meanwhile, Chief of Police Michael Hughes reported: "It is almost impossible to trace bombers. There are 50 places in the city where dynamite can be purchased just as a person buys a package of cigarets...
...Chicago counts himself a politician of any repute until he has been pineappled or at least threatened. And no man is at present more entangled in Chicago politics than Senator Deneen. He is leader of the Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith...
Alderman B. A. Cronson, supporter of the America First party, and Mayor Thompson: "Don't you worry, you guys, America First will be first on April 10 without any pineapple days...
Last week the tradition that not even the King may enter the City of London without permission of The Lord Mayor was ceremoniously upheld. The royal carriage stopped for a moment just outside the site of the ancient City Wall?indicated last week by a red silken cord. Pompously My Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Albert Batho, approached, clad in his robes of ermine and crimson velvet, heavy with his golden chains of office. Respectfully yet proudly he tendered to His Majesty the Sword & Keys of the City. Graciously George V touched both, symbolizing that he accepted the permission...
...troubles of Baltimoreans. Mr. Fixit was first tried out in the more potent Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, was a success. Then nearly all of the 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers created Mr. Fixits. The present one on the Baltimore Post is George Browning, who is cheered as loudly as the mayor when he appears in public. He has been little-johnny-sunshine to newsboys and millionaires. When the mother of a rabbi was in a delirium and needed absolute quiet, he got the highways bureau to close her street to traffic for ten days, until she recovered...