Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...posting of 300 policemen to guard other city officials' homes, especially Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's. Two families in the Thompson apartment building took good advice and moved...
Undismayed, Mayor Thompson left town, going to Washington to have a fat finger in the larger political business of Flood Control...
...facts make this possible: 1) Mayor Walker's buffoonery is shrewdly directed; 2) New York, despite its turbulent subway problem, gets along somehow no matter who is mayor or where...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado and Oliver Henry Shoup, who was Governor before him (1919-23), swung sledges last week to drive a spike into a railroad tie under the Continental Divide west of Denver. The spike was a golden one and the two laborers made speeches. Mayor John F. Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich...
...like a clown and be hit on the nose by a lollypop at the New Orleans Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)-he would no doubt be flayed in the press for wantonly neglecting his duty. But an unlimited amount of insouciance is expected and applauded when it is exhibited by Mayor James J. Walker of New York City...