Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last issue of your magazine in that part dealing with the premiere of Gone With the Wind at Atlanta, Ga. recently you report the mayor of Atlanta as cautioning the people of the city not to tear the clothing off of the movie stars as was done at the premiere of Dodge City. A letter has been dispatched to the mayor requesting him to prove his statement or publicly retract and apologize; in other words, "to put up or shut...
Place and circumstance might have been used as a symbol by a more rhetorical man than former football guard Mayor Lamberton. For while the city jingled, beneath the mayor's feet was Philadelphia's deep, dark financial hole...
Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...
Cambridge's Mayor John W. Lyons deliberated, announced: "I appreciate the council's attempts to act in a fine-spirited manner, but I think it best that their efforts die a quiet death in the pocket of my old blue serge suit. . . . Everyone in Cambridge knows that Mike's heart is in the right place. ..." Retorted Councilman Sullivan, threatening to override the veto : "I'm not kidding about this thing. ... It may step on freedom of speech and the press a little bit, but it should be done...
Married. Barbara Vandenberg Knight, dark, buxom daughter of G. O. P. Senator Arthur Vandenberg and his first (late) wife; and John W. Bailey Jr., son of the late mayor of Battle Creek, Mich., whom Arthur Vanctenberg whopped almost three to one in the 1928 Michigan Senatorial election; in Washington, D. C. Married in 1931, Barbara divorced Husband John Knight in 1935, and again, after remarriage...