Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphrey moved into the Victorian-looking mayor's office and started to rattle the stained-glass windows. He gave his cops a single order-close down or else, Minneapolis closed down overnight, even to the slot machines at American Legion hall. He pushed through a city FEPC which made it a misdemeanor ($100 or 90 days) to discriminate in employment. He warned management that he would not use police to break up picket lines. When the labor bosses who had helped put him in office protested his selection of a police chief, Humphrey told them flatly...
Working up to 18 hours a day (in three years as mayor he had dinner at home only 25 times), Humphrey kept city hall in a turmoil, but he also gave Minneapolis an honest, efficient government...
Last week the council was convened for the first time since 1946-to hear its death sentence. Since Europeans objected to its meeting in Pretoria's City Hall, the council squeezed into a stiflingly hot little backstreet meeting room. Said Secretary for Native Affairs Dr. W.J.G. Mears, explaining the council's dissolution: "It has apparently created a sense of frustration in the councilors...
Every seat in the columned auditorium at Madrid's Club Mercantil had been taken, but still the people came. Mink-coated ladies and threadbare scholars jostled for places behind the doors, crowded onto the balcony overlooking the hall. They waited patiently for the wiry little man with unruly white hair to step to the gold desk on the dais. When he did, they burst into cheers. They clapped and shouted so long that they seemed almost hysterical. The little man smiled, slowly raised his arms for silence. Then he began to speak...
Coach Butch Jordan and an odd assortment of varsity wrestlers entrain for Columbia at 5 p.m. this afternoon, on their way to what should be their third straight success of the season. The match is scheduled for 3 p.m. tomorrow on the University Hall mats...