Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearing that Senator Heflin had the floor, Mayor Walker riposted: "That means nothing is being said...
...Mayor: "You told me the best joke I ever heard...
...Mayor: "Oh, I'm not going to tell...
John F. Hylan, famed for what he did not accomplish as Mayor of New York City (1918-25) and for a remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
...spike of the kind first used in the construction of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad in 1851. Around the spike was a decayed hole about five inches long, in which lay the tough, rubbery snake eggs. Having the good of Tullahoma at heart, down to the lowest snake, Mayor W. J. Davidson took the eggs to his heated office and gave them a place in the sun, atop his desk. Last week he noticed the box vibrating. He looked into it and found seven infant snakes crawling about, frisky and healthy after an incubation period of seventy-seven years...