Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team by the deal. The argument goes on without results, and will continue to do so until that April, day when the teams return. Then facts replace theories and the crack of the bat announces the beginning of a new year. For spring has not really come until the mayor throws out the ball and the umpire shouts the first "Play Ball...
...obtained as its Foreign Minister the able and versatile General Huang-Fu. Some five years ago he administered this same post with marked success for what is now the rival reactionary Government at Peking. Later the facile General served as Chinese envoy to Germany, and more recently he was Mayor of the Chinese settlement at Shanghai. Last week he quietly put forward the Nationalist claims for revision of China's "unequal treaties" with the Powers but displayed in his statements to the press a healthy consciousness of realities and a willingness to bide his time...
Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...
Said Mr. McAndrew's lawyer, Francis X. Busch: "We are going to demonstrate that the Mayor of Chicago cannot defame a man's character without being made to answer for it. The charges now on hearing before the school board are not only ridiculous but are a collection of damnable lies, except the first in which he was accused of having an educational policy. This he confessed." Typical charges against Mr. McAndrew are that he cut pictures of George Washington out of history books, that he removed "Spirit of '76" lithographs from the walls of Chicago schools...