Word: mayors
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Secret of Boss Hague's success is as simple and austere as arithmetic. He holds tight control of Hudson County, where he is boss and mayor of Jersey City. New Jersey, outside of Hudson County, normally votes Republican; but year in, year out, populous, Democratic Hudson County holds the balance of power in New Jersey, and Boss Hague has Hudson County tucked in his neat derby...
...Victoria molded him into a typical Englishman of his time-not a Kipling Englishman, but a Galsworthy Soames Forsyte. Neville Chamberlain's mind was once described as "the type which was considered advanced and enlightened at the close of the last century." He was a competent Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1915-16), but of his efforts as wartime Director of National Service, Lloyd George wrote in his memoirs: "A vein of self-sufficient obstinacy in the new Minister contributed to the difficulties that baffled all our endeavors...
...naiads and tritons, by famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, represent the meeting of the Mississippi and the Missouri, is known officially as the Meeting of the Waters, locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony. Last week a crowd of 2,000 saw the fountain unveiled at last. Speakers were Mayor Bernard Dickmann, Mrs. Aloe (widow of the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe), Sculptor Milles himself. When the white, sheetlike veils were removed and the water shot 90 ft. into the air, wetting Sculptor Milles and a surrounding bevy of flower-toting ladies, everybody cheered. Conspicuously absent were Chairman Francis...
Editors asked for more. Dave invented Rochester's Mayor Walter Tripp (in real life proprietor of the Jiffy Lunch), had him announce a Reduced Production County Fair, dedicated to New Deal crop control. Prizes were offered for the scrawniest pig, puniest pumpkin, cow yielding the least milk, the most sterile quart of soil. A special prize awaited the farmer entering fewest exhibits. Appreciative, Associated Press sent the tale over its wires. From all over the U. S. letters poured...
...Annual Dinner is scheduled for 7:30 this evening. Three distinguished figures in President James Bryant Conant '14; Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts, and Mayor Florello H. La Guardia will address the assembled group at the Hotel Astor at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue...