Word: mayor-elect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...price of rice and beans. As factory streets filled with pickets, rumors spread that a big quebra-quebra (literally, "break-break"), all-night looting outbreak, was in the offing. With the danger that the unrest might boil up into a full-scale general strike, President Vargas summoned Mayor-elect Jânio to an urgent conference. As a first result of this session, Jânio, a lone-hander who had won without making commitments, took office at once instead of waiting as scheduled until April...
...Mayor-Elect Lizarralde, 37, is a big, earnest man who talks quietly and infrequently. One of Guatemala's top civil engineers, Lizarralde had built streets, sewers and a sound reputation in Guatemala City. In politics, he was a blue-eyed innocent who had never run for office before. During his campaign he took a firm stand against letting the city "fall into the hands of grafting Red demagogues," got out to meet the voters informally, and let others do most of the speechmaking...
Johnny Hynes's election gave Boston a long-needed chance for some political reform, and the mayor-elect hoped to oblige. First, he would sweep some 200 Curley appointees out of City Hall, including two of old Jim's sons. "Our city," said Hynes, "needs a new moral tone, a new atmosphere and a new outlook...
When the U-boats of World War II hit hard at East Coast shipping, many Latin American traders had to turn to New Orleans. Spruce, young (34) deLesseps Story (Chep) Morrison, the city's mayor-elect, wants to keep them coming...
...justice to Mayor-Elect Joseph Srholez Jr., he resigned from WPA before filing his petition. Councilmen Kabela and Kozich were never...