Word: mayor
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This time hulking John Lewis was belaboring Bill Green for saying at the A. F. of L. convention in Denver that Mr. Lewis was motivated by "consuming" political ambition. Mr. Lewis admitted "some political ambitions." They were, he said: 1) the re-election of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, 2) to see Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, promoted next year from Lieutenant Governor to Governor of Pennsylvania. 3) to see New York State's American Labor party develop into "a major political party" and 4) to see the "C. I. 0. ticket...
...running by his own choice was Mayor Frank Couzens, son of Michigan's late Senator James Couzens. The battle to succeed him developed into a three-cornered fight among C. I. O., A. F. of L. and Detroit's better businessmen. Sponsored by the city's conservative citizenry who earlier in the year were fearful that a united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made...
...months ago the Mayor of Valles, State of San Luis Potosi, was murdered. General Saturnine Cedillo, boss of San Luis Potosi, appointed another Mayor, but the townspeople resented the dictation, called for a regular election. Fortnight ago, they arranged a meeting to agitate for their rights, invited several hundred Labor sympathizers from Mexico City to attend. Boss Cedillo's men opened fire on the gathering from hotel windows, cafe doors. Throwing up street barricades, the two groups potshot at each other for eight hours, were stopped by the arrival of Federal troops. Four lay dead, several wounded...
Handsome, bemustached Democrat McWilliams found himself pitted against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling...
...other candidates (including Charles H. ("Time Clock") Hubbell, who had One-Eyed Connolly for a campaign manager and got 724 votes), were also rans when the primary vote was counted. But Burton-McWilliams division of votes caused Clevelanders to open their eyes. Mayor Burton turned up with an unprecedented 10-7 margin over his Democratic opponent, although some 50% of the voters, including most of the independents, stayed at home. Astute observers foresaw Mayor Burton re-elected next month by a 50,000 majority...