Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind barred doors at the Harvard Club, New York's diminutive Mayor LaGuardia spoke to a large group of Law School students, professors, and alumni at the Law Review's annual banquet last night...
...Mayor of Baton Rouge and the Governor of Louisiana will receive alumni in Baton Rouge on Monday. The party will be led by Dean George Chase, Dr. Little, and Dean Plimpton...
Meantime he had his ups & downs. In 1902, Republican Seth Low became mayor and Jimmy Hines lost the city's horseshoeing business. For $3,500 he sold a share in the smithy to one Klenke. Hines drew $75 a week for himself and about $4,000 a year out of profits, but after 1907, when he was elected alderman, politics was his real profession. In 1912 he sold Klenke the rest of the smithy for $7,000, and with a man named Madden went into the trucking business, fattening on city contracts for snow, garbage, rubbish removal. After...
...after another Republican reform regime (Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's) came in, Jimmy Hines had to live on savings. In 1918 he got into the Malto-Dextrine (glucose) business as a factory supervisor and trucker for $100 a week and a percentage of profits. He arranged the sale of a 25% interest in Malto-Dextrine to Charles F. Murphy, Tammany's big boss...
...trophies were returned to Mother Baudoin in a pleasant ceremony at the City Hall at Versailles. Mayor Henriet expressed the Government's apologies...