Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loyal Tammany man; in summer he usually goes to Ireland and makes speeches on trade, which the Hearstpapers dutifully report. What Ireland needs most, after independence, William Griffin thinks, is a chain of modern hotels. Occasionally Publisher Griffin starts a movement to draft William Griffin for mayor (1937) or Senator...
Billy Rose was not the only little man at the show. Encountered while he was resting between rounds of dedicating buildings, Mayor Fiorelio La Guardla said, "The Hasty Pudding Show? I got a great kick out of secing myself in that. I've been trying to copy that actor's laugh ever since...
...Mayor Flynn's attitude used to be: "Prostitution will continue to exist in some form. It is far better for the community if prostitutes are known, regulated and examined...
Last week, still waiting to stand trial, Mayor Flynn and the city commissioners stood for reelection. All but one commissioner...
...Gardenia of the Law." Grover Whalen got his first name because he was born in New York City on June 2, 1886, the marriage day of President Grover Cleveland. In 1917, he hitched his wagon to the rising star of Mayor John F. Hylan, became a figure in politics and a great success as a civic greeter (of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, hundreds of other personages). After that Grover Whalen slipped easily into a $100,000-a-year berth at Wanamaker's store, returned to civic affairs in the Mayor Walker regime when...