Word: mayors
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Since Boss Tom Pendergast went to jail for income-tax evasion (TIME, May 29), the man more or less running turbid Kansas City, Mo. has been Mayor Bryce Bryan Smith. Last week Tom Pendergast's long political arm reached out of his jail cell. What was left of the Pendergast machine pulled a squeeze play in City Council, squeezed in a 73-year-old onetime insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager. Thus estopped in his valiant efforts to clean up dirty Kansas City, little (5 feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said...
While Kansas City lost an old mayor, Philadelphia got a brand new one. On New Year's Day heavy-jawed ex-Judge Robert Eneas Lamberton stood in the hoary Academy of Music, where he scarcely ever goes because "I don't understand music," and took the oath of office...
Beneath the new mayor's new shoes was the empty, sealed-up, $6,000,000 tunnel of the Locust Street subway. Outside, down Broad Street cavorted Philadelphia's spangled, jingling, slightly cockeyed annual Mummers' Parade...
Speakers at the dinner will be Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, President James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell '77, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, Attorney General Paul A. Dever, Judge John J. Burns '26, Judge Francis Good, and Mayor John W. Lyons...
...Mayor John W. Lyons allowed the order to lapse by not signing it before the end of the year, after an opinion by City Solicitor Richard G, Evarts '13 that the measure exceeded the Council's authority...