Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Photographers begged for one more picture, on the hotel steps with the manager. Mayor Walker, letting Secretary Mellon wait, obliged. Then he motored to the Treasury Department. The chauffeur wanted to stop at the Secretary's private entrance but Mayor Walker wisecracked: "Better go in the regular way, although I've been thrown out of better places than that...
Secretary Mellon, waiting inside with Attorney General Sargent and Postmaster General New, at last received the Mayor, who thereupon had to be photographed for 15 minutes more. While the cameras ticked, Postmaster General New remarked: "It's a hell of a long time for a New Yorker to be still...
...opened at a hotel breakfast table. James J. Walker, the dapper, glib, little mick who is Mayor of New York, was pleading with photographers and newsgatherers. He held up his coffee cup. "I really want to drink it," he said...
...telephone rang and said, "Secretary Mellon will wait 15 minutes longer for you." Mayor Walker eased into his modish overcoat and observed: "I am happy wherever I am. That's why I hate to leave...
Those ambitious for the Presidency have discovered two very effective means of avoiding the unpleasantness of declaring themselves plainly. One method is that of silence, in the manner of President Coolidge and Mayor Lodge of Detroit: effective where the field is small, and the opposition has stated its platform. Some candidates are pussyfooting in this way; others have found a more subtle scheme, in which the procedure is, first, the careful study of the issues raised and supported by the few who have been audacious enough to speak, and second, the choice of an issue not yet covered...