Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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County Chairman Patrick A. Nash and Mayor Edward J. Kelly unreservedly called for and worked for the election of the entire Democratic ticket. The straight ticket was emphasized in every phase of the campaign. When inspired rumors of the type familiar in all election campaigns were spread, by the opposition, to the effect that Governor Horner would be slighted, Chairman Nash and Mayor Kelly took the unprecedented action of personally sending to each of the more than 3,500 county precinct workers a telegram reinforcing the party position of wholehearted support for every candidate on the ticket...
...Francisco's Mayor Angelo Rossi took the opportunity offered by settlement of an incidental warehousemen's strike to thank Mr. McGrady "on behalf of the people of San Francisco," for his "successful" efforts. But every one knew that this was sheer politeness. The Assistant Secretary had by turns persuaded and pounded tables, until local labor leaders called him Edward Ferocious McGrady. But on the main issue, whether the unions should continue to control the hiring halls (supplying any men they see fit to operators who need seamen or longshoremen), neither side gave any concession He did, however...
...burden falls on him because Madam Secretary Perkins is, in the eyes of Labor, an outsider. If she should retire, her job might be given to one of Franklin Roosevelt's liberal friends, such as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, or it might be given to Ed McGrady...
During his U. S. visit, Papal Secretary Pacelli also visited the Cardinal-Archbishops of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. He made a dash to the Pacific Coast, where San Francisco's Catholic Mayor Angelo Rossi kissed the episcopal ring, dashed back East to Manhattan, where Catholic Postmaster General James A. Farley also knelt...
...crisp black and white advertisements, recommended more truthful copy, fewer superlatives. In 1935 Saks Fifth Avenue made him their vice president (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Between times he darted off to Europe every summer, predicted Hitler's success six months before the event, advised New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in his 1933 Fusion Campaign, New York's Comptroller McGoldrick in 1934. He lectures to retailing classes at New York University, serves as board chairman to the University in Exile, which provides teaching posts for top-notch German refugees. He headed the group of Philharmonic patrons...