Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York voted heavily against amending its constitution to give its Governor a four-year term with elections in presidential years. Governor Smith led the Democratic fight against this amendment.*. . . Republicans gained four Assembly seats. . . . Democrats pushed through a $300,000,000 state bond issue for building Manhattan subways. . . . Republican mayors replaced Democratic in Buffalo, Schenectady, Little Falls, Rome. . . . Democratic mayors replaced Republicans in Auburn and Troy. . . . Tammany Democrats swamped New York City...
Indiana. The Indianapolis City Council resolved their city's mayoral tangle (TIME, Nov. 7, CORRUPTION) by casting ballots for a successor to Mayor John L. Duvall, convicted & resigned. On the 38th ballot, L. Ert Slack, onetime laywer for the K. K. K., was elected. Mayor Slack's term will end Jan. 1, 1930, when a city manager system goes into effect in Indianapolis...
...brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to town, in L915. He was the man whom they had elected in 1912 to keep San Francisco from being exploited as "the Paris of America." The San Franciscans re-elected Mayor Rolph for a fifth four-year term by a 30,000-vote margin...
...York's gubernatorial term is two years. Democrats favor the four-year term-but not with leap-year elections. -Last March, the U. S. Supreme Court declared such courts unconstitutional. The referendum would have made such courts constitutional in Ohio. *Machines in which betters place their money on their chosen horses, receiving tickets in return. The betting odds of each race are figured by the machines in ratio to the total amount bet on each horse and winners cash in their tickets at these odds, which are not announced until after each race. The machines also figure...
...King George will of course not sue Mayor Thompson for his slanderous remarks, but libel is perhaps the term that should be applied to the charges male," was Strawn's summary of the Chicago mayor's campaign: "That the present agitation is a publicity move is proved by the fact that many of the books which have been destroyed were placed in the schools during Mayor Thompson's administration. The whole affair is apparently an effort to attract attention...