Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's new Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee refused to have the traditional Mayor's lamps placed outside the large Bronx apartment house where he lives. Still shining nightly are the lamps outside the homes of ex-Mayors James John ("Jimmy") Walker and John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan...
...Norris, able pathologist, director of Bellevue Hospital pathological laboratories, replaced the fee-grabbing coroners of the five boroughs which compose New York City. A few years later Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike'') Hylan slighted one of Dr. Norris' aides. Dr. Norris promptly mailed his resignation. Mayor Hylan tore it up. Last week Mayor McKee, more of a diplomat, accepted Dr. Norris' resignation and then persuaded him to withdraw...
...tournament in the world to win, for which British & U. S. Open Champion Gene Sarazen failed to qualify three weeks ago. Ponderous Olin Dutra who looks like Jack Dempsey and handles his putter like an elephant with a teaspoon, won the medal with 140. His brother Mortie, Johnny Farrell, Mike Turnesa, Abe Espinosa, Walter Kozak, Tommy Armour and last year's Open champion, Billy Burke, were all over the play-off score?153. The first round was memorable for two tremendous matches which passed the record set when Chick Evans won the 1920 U. S. Amateur in 40 holes...
...meeting, served notice on President L. W. Greve that they would fly in no more events unless the total prize money for closed-course races was upped from $28,000 to what they said the committee had advertised, $100,000. Barked Pilot Benny Howard, whose small, home-made racers Mike and Ike had taken first & second places in a 50-mi. event that day: ''Why, there'll be $50,000 worth of planes cracked up before the end of the week...
...Frederick H. Prince's America's Cup contender Weetamoe, sailed by Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt: the King's Cup. at Newport, closing race of the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise; against Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, the only other big racing sloop in commission this year...