Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of the Federal postmasters refusal to send packages of food (on the ridiculously flimsy ground that they were not accepting "any irregular packages" during the steel strike), came the ukase from Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, leader of one of the most ruthlessly efficient city machines since Boss Tweed held sway in Gotham, that Republic Steel must henceforth stop housing workers in the temporary quarters set up in the Chicago plants. This is because the Company is "violating city health and building ordinances", a statement so palpably absurd, when the temporary living conditions established inside the plants...
...most of the winter residents as well as to the 350,000 summer residents of Wildwood, to know what prompted you to describe Wildwood as "a hardened little resort town and fishing port between Atlantic City and Cape May," in your article of May 17 on our "Extraordinary Mayor." Just what constitutes "a hardened town?" 1 will gladly admit there is nothing Puritanical about Wildwood, and it is quite frankly a resort city. But that does not mean we are hardened. The resort attracts a very good class of people from all sections of the country. All of our many...
There was a wedding rehearsal. The little doctor-mayor of Monts, Charles Mercier, announced that he would give up "my usual muddy little buggy" for a handsome car, and that he was buying a new cutaway coat for the ceremony. Running through the brief service, he found the Duke of Windsor halting but adequate in French, Mrs. Warfield fluent. "You needn't worry," cracked twice-married Wallis Warfield. "I know the responses...
Fascist Doriot is a converted Communist, kicked out of the Party for refusing to take orders from Russia. Turned fascist, he attracted little attention from French Leftists during his first few months of speechmaking. They began to worry when they learned that he, for 16 years mayor of the normally Red suburb of St. Denis and a potent member of the Paris Municipal Council, was actually converting a number of St. Denis voters to fascism. A key point in the program of Doriot, who favors an alliance with Germany & Italy, is the union of pro-German and anti-Russian elements...
...Leftist Government of Premier Blum, one year old this week, struck last week at rising Fascist Doriot. By edict of the Ministry of the Interior, he was removed from office as mayor of St. Denis, charged with corruption in the purchase of coal and the awarding of electrical contracts...