Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English-speaking Aldermen of the City of Montreal, are proud of the really wonderful reception accorded Their Majesties by the Canadians of French origin. We also can testify that Mayor Houde acquitted himself with honor and dignity on this memorable occasion...
...that function (where Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had an inning), Their Majesties entrained for Red Bank, N. J., next morning were escorted to the destroyer Warrington at Sandy Hook. Hundreds of Britishers on chartered steamers missed them as they sailed across the Lower Bay to the Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen over the Mayor's protest, instead of Broadway-Fifth Avenue because it was easier to patrol) in a triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh...
...Mayor of Charleston then, and ambitious head of the State Public Service Authority, was Burnet Rhett Maybank, 40, first Charleston aristocrat since the Civil War with the energy and ability to win over enough low-born upstate farmers and mill hands to get himself elected Governor, which he did last year...
...exuberant, she needed a cause, and the pay left her something to send home. She used to get up at five or six in the morning to catch the milk train and loved it. She loved the rough-&-tumble arguments she got into, the job of talking down the mayor and the local minister and the village trustees until they let her speak. In one town she always got a contribution from a rich old woman who said she couldn't see any sense in the suffragette movement but gave money to it because it was such a good...
...managing editors as Victor Watson and Foster Coates. He covered the Belle Gunness murder case in La Porte, Ind. (she cut off the heads of nine Swedish swains), chased an imaginary Belle Gunness all the way to Victoria, B. C. only to learn that she was Victoria's mayor's sister-in-law. A man of action, Pegler once got bored covering a dull riot story in Rock Island, Ill., set off a brace of giant firecrackers under the mayor's window, filed an exclusive story of the "bombing" six minutes after the explosion...