Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver-haired bigboy named Thomas Frank Hayes, a Democrat of good family and much property who had made a name for himself in the Legislature. With him marched his friends Daniel J. Leary as comptroller and Thomas P. Kelly as executive secretary. They got a new "strong mayor" charter for the city instead of a city-manager plan, which had nearly been adopted. Taxes went up, relief necessitated a $2,000,000 bond issue, but the books of Mayor Hayes & Co. looked fine. Mr. Hayes got elected Lieutenant Governor in 1934 but retained his mayoral job just the same...
...Four A's found the A. F. A. guilty on all but part of one count, revoked its charter. This birthright Four A's thereupon presented to a new union, the American Guild of Variety Artists, with a constitution all written. Day later, the Guild was hard at work signing up A. F. A. members. A. F. A. executives declared they would go to court. Sophie Tucker said brittlely: "It is all very amusing. It is very funny...
...months ago the Inquirer posted on its masthead the slogan: "An Independent Newspaper for All the People," and it has kept its promise of independence. It has soured on Governor James, whom it helped to elect, has roasted the Legislature for killing Philadelphia's much-needed City Charter Bill, will back a Democratic mayoralty ticket next fall if Annenberg does not like the Republican nominee. Publisher Annenberg likes to think of himself as a crusader, wound up one editorial with a neat metaphorical blend: "Political skunks can wear themselves out directing their poison gas at me. I shall continue...
...suggested that the child see her first in her tiara for the Embassy State dinner. After that function (where Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had an inning), Their Majesties entrained for Red Bank, N. J., next morning were escorted to the destroyer Warrington at Sandy Hook. Hundreds of Britishers on chartered steamers missed them as they sailed across the Lower Bay to the Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen over the Mayor's protest, instead of Broadway-Fifth Avenue because...
...carefully cultivated anachronism. In Winnipeg the Canadians were proud to produce a quaint ceremony of their own. Before the loopholed gate of old Fort Garry, Governor Patrick Ashley Cooper of the Hudson's Bay Co. paid to the King the rent established when King Charles II granted its charter: "Two elkcs and two Black beavers whensoever and as often as Wee our heires and successors shall happen to enter into the said Countryes Territoryes and Regions hereby granted." The King was willing to relax the requirements, and instead of a ton of meat on the hoof and a pair...