Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McNamara Next Mayor...
...consistent assailant of Harvard's tax-exempt position, the lanky young politician may ride into office next fall as Cambridge's new mayor on this very issue. For it is no secret around the city that he is the incumbent Mayor Lyons' most likely successor...
...Chicago edition of Thomas Edmund Dewey is Dwight Green, 42, stocky, grey, energetic. He helped jail Al Capone and tried Old Sam Insull. Last week, Dwight Green got more votes for Mayor (638,068) than any Republican candidate in history...
That was not enough to blow down 62-year-old Edward Joseph Kelly, six-year Mayor of Chicago and co-Boss of the Democratic machine. Without once using the word "Green" during his entire campaign, Ed Kelly collected 822,469 votes, which were more than anyone of any party had ever polled in a Chicago mayoralty election...
...also corrupt: by 1911 the income of 370 houses of prostitution amounted to $17,760,000 annually. Now the brilliantly lighted "Arcade," that in 1907 housed 300 girls, is closed. In the back room of the Budweiser Saloon on Douglas Street, tough Tom Dennison bossed city politics, fought Mayor Ed Smith, won after Smith had been half-killed trying to stop a lynching...