Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midwestern ministry he had trodden it often. He fought anti-evolution laws, was present at the Scopes trial. Once he asserted that Kansas City's syphilitic prostitutes, instead of being locked up in institutions, were being taken to the edge of town and turned loose. When the mayor challenged the charge, the police commissioners backed up Dr. Birkhead in public. The mayor, infuriated, brought his fist down on the table with a crash, exploded "By God!" and fell dead. Since then Dr. Birkhead has had to go easier on his opponents. But last week, claiming that there were...
...money in his war chest to carry on the battle for over a year, ASCAP's Broadway-wise president, old Songwriter Gene Buck, was feeling pretty pleased with himself. Lucky Strike's Hit Parade he called the "bit parade." Meanwhile B. M. I. President Neville Miller, hero-mayor of the 1937 Louisville flood, boasted that many a station had been complimented on "the freshness and adequacy of B. M. I. music." Some listeners reacted otherwise. Ten thousand musicians, composers, educators signed petitions asking FCC to knock both B. M. I.'s and ASCAP's heads together...
...Your suggestion that "Canada may have to clap many more French Canadians into detention camps to keep French Canada in line" [TIME, Dec. 23] is such a gross distortion that I could not discuss it in terms worthy of the mayor of a great city...
...Mayor of Montreal
Office of the Mayor Montreal, Quebec