Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian Minister to the U. S. His son. Captain John A. Gade. is U. S. Naval attache in Brussels, his grandson, Gerhard, U. S. Second Secretary at Quito. Another son, F. Herman Gade (John's brother, Gerhard's father), used to be Norwegian Consul at Chicago and mayor of Lake Forest, Ill., is now chatelain of the Chateau du Mesnil-St. Denis near Paris. Last week Chatelain F. Herman Gade had trouble with a tenant...
...devious, but Raymond & Thompson give a useful diagram of the mechanism. Founded on Tammany use of hoodlums and floaters to get out the vote and win elections in the 23 assembly districts of Manhattan, the mechanism involved Tammany gratitude to these instruments. Tammany gratitude was partially expressed through mayor-appointed magistrates-a tie-up very shocking to good people when the Seabury investigation brought it out in 1930-31. Judge Seabury's recommendation-that the appointment of magistrates be removed from politics-has never been followed...
...Jimmy." In 1932 at the final Herbert Hoover campaign rally in Madison Square Garden, sprightly, dapper, top-hatted Paul Reynaud was mistaken by the crowd for ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City, drew cries of: "What are you doing here, Jimmy...
...packed the Hasty Pudding Club House for the first public showing of their racy bit of theatricals. "Assorted Nuts," waited, Councillor Michael A. Sullivan once more made news as the man who stopped the show by holding up the curtain for an hour while a permit was obtained from Mayor Lyons...
...really frightened, Gottlieb finally persuaded Greene to get a verbal license from Mayor Lyons...