Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor John C. Lodge, of Detroit, recently issued a proclamation calling for Aviation Week this year to be set April 14-20 and at the same in time suggested that other localities join Detroit in observing this that week. He agreed with me in a recent letter that the week beginning May 20 would then include the date of the most heroic feat of our day#151;Lindbergh's flight to Paris...
...White House last week, the political air was full of similar sentiments, expressed for various reasons by Republican statesmen in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts. Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him. For example, in Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was frankly borrowing the Coolidge virtues as window-dressing for a campaign in behalf of discredited Governor Len Small...
Will "Cities' Rights" supplant the old-time "States' Rights" doctrine as a major political and economic issue? Charles Edward Merriam, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, Republican candidate in 1911 for Mayor of Chicago, suggested the question by an address at the 150th convocation of the University of Chicago last week...
...next engagement of the Walker act is on April 9, when Mayor Walker will, for some reason, be headman at the ceremonious unveiling of the Stone Mountain Memorial at Atlanta, Ga., to the armies of the Confederacy.-TIME, March...
...independent vote that decides elections. In each of the 15 precincts in Cambridge. I have four or five personal friends who have lists of all the voters," said Mayor Quinn, striking a lighter vein. "I have them bring to the polls only certain men, and those men I know will vote for Quinn. But you can't do that in the state campaigns," he declared...