Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having gone through a grueling Presidential campaign last fall, Los Angeles had little wind left for its municipal primary last month, still less for its runoff election last week in which Mayor Frank Lawrence Shaw was returned to office for four more years with a majority of 25,000 votes over his opponent, County Supervisor John Anson Ford...
...Angeles municipal candidates run without party labels, but everybody knew that Mayor Shaw is a nominal Republican and that Candidate Ford is currently Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, although he made an unsuccessful race for Congress as a Republican in 1932. Because 53-year-old Candidate Ford, an oldtime newshawk, was identified as a liberal and Mayor Shaw, a former grocery salesman, was known as a tried and true conservative, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. In Los Angeles, no one damned as a liberal can count on the all-powerful support of the Red-hating Chamber...
Best laugh of the campaign was provided by a widely circulated picture showing grey, bespectacled Mayor Shaw seated in an automobile with President & Mrs, Roosevelt with the National Capitol in the background. The picture's caption: "This heretofore unpublished photo shows President and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Los Angeles' dynamic Mayor, Hon. Frank L. Shaw, motoring near the National Capitol during Mayor Shaw's recent visit in Washington." Candidate Ford offered "final and conclusive" proof that Mayor Shaw had not motored with the Roosevelts in Washington, that a picture taken when Mayor Shaw rode through...
...Boston papers gave slight space and less editorial comment to Mr. Curley's huff is proof enough that his attitude is one of simple pettiness and his publicizing an example of unsubtle politics. Undoubtedly Mr. Curley hopes what Professor Seavey believes, that like Thompson he will be re-elected mayor of Boston next November...
Seavey answered by referring to the Boston ex-Governor. "Well, everybody knows about Curley, and yet I'm afraid he's going to be elected Mayor." There was an embarrassing silence in the room, although no one looked around toward Leo, whom everybody in the room except Seavey knew to be present. Then the discussion started on a different angle...