Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they must consider any metaphor-mixer after direct contact for many years with Supervisor James B. McSheehy, quadrennially unsuccessful candidate for mayor...
Johnson On the Spot. The occasion on which he was welcomed to China as Minister was a landmark in the course of U. S.-Chinese relations. At a vast, formal tea at the Grand Hotel in beautiful Tsingtao, the city's acting mayor rose, rustled his black silk gown, made a pretty, set speech in Chinese. An interpreter laboriously translated. Then Mr. Johnson got up, paused, bowed to hosts and guests. The audience set itself for a weary, long-winded speech which most of them would not understand. With a grin, Nelson Johnson proposed a toast and made...
...Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd of 2,000 to see the first scheduled airline flight come in to New York City's new $40,000,000 terminal. Said Jack Zimmerman to the Mayor of New York, "This is a swell airport...
While patient Mrs. Kuhn said she would stay by her husband, while the trial nodded on again, it was plain for all to see that loving the Führer in a foreign land had caused Fritz Kuhn a lot of trouble. Introduced as evidence were two notes by Mayor LaGuardia and Tom Dewey, written before Kuhn's arrest...
...York City's smart little ex-Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, wrote his second song in 25 years (the first: Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?). Excerpts from In Our Little Part of Town...