Word: mayors
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Station WLS (standing for World's Largest Store) was launched in 1924 by Sears, Roebuck & Co. A bevy of guests sounded forth, among them Chicago's Mayor William E. Dever, Jane Addams, the Duncan Sisters. Actress Ethel Barrymore was led up to the mike and, affrighted, throbbed "Oh my God!," was then led away. Piped from Manhattan to Chicago were the congratulatory voices of Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Brisbane and Ring Lardner...
Plan E provides for a city manager selected and responsible to the Council. He would run the city. prepare the budget, and appoint subordinates according to civil service laws, while the Mayor would be shorn of his veto and appointment powers. The City Council, reduced to nine men, would be elected by proportional representation...
...Nimblest of the three disturbers of the Schaefer peace was Shack-Dweller Henry Frees, a onetime acrobat, who once used an $800 settlement for an injury to his arm to run for mayor of Belleville, Ill. He lost both the $800 and the election, went back to his shack. Emerging as a Congressional candidate, Mr. Frees stood on his head while he made campaign speeches, promised, if elected, to do backflips up the Capitol steps. His resounding advice to Congressman Schaefer: "If he doesn't play golf I think he should ought to learn. In case fishing...
Alarmed were Chicago's bellicose Mayor Ed Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Pat Nash. Mr. Kelly is 63, interested mainly in his work; older and wiser is Contractor, Horseowner Nash, whose interests, in order, are: 1) sewers, 2) stables, 3) politics. Sniffing Republican resurgence in the air, Messrs...
Stubborn Mr. Stelle announced he was still Acting Governor; quiet Mr. Nudelman still went on running things; Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Dwight Green shook happy hands with Republican Senatorial Candidate C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks. Hastily Mayor Kelly struck off a statement praising Roosevelt and Humanity and set out for a Florida vacation with horsy Mr. Nash...