Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation. No stooge for his party, Homer Brown voted to impeach Pittsburgh's comic Democratic Mayor McNair, to investigate Democratic Governor Earle's beclouded administration...
King's Mayor. Monday night and Tuesday the royal couple traveled through the pine-shadowed lakes of western Ontario. If it was late at night when the King and Queen passed through a hamlet, crowds that gathered to see the shuttered cars flash by waved their flags, but kept silent lest they disturb King George and Queen Elizabeth's sleep. At White River, "coldest spot in Ontario," the train stopped to service the locomotive. On the snow-sprinkled platform Indians, school children, townspeople hoping against hope that they might glimpse their sovereigns, were overjoyed when Queen Elizabeth, motioning...
...promotion was rapid. First he taught at Grenoble, then at Marseille, then at Lyon, where his master Herriot was also mayor. Then Daladier got a promotion to the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. At that moment the World War broke out. He entered the Army as a sergeant, fought (Arras, Champagne, Verdun, Flanders), became an infantry captain, earned a Legion of Honor medal, the Croix de Guerre, three citations for bravery. In the autumn of 1919 he went back to take his job at the Lycée Condorcet. Again it eluded him. He stayed just two weeks before...
...long been mixed up with shady financial deals. In 1932 he had gained control of the semi-official pawnshop ("Credit Municipal") of Bayonne. By arranging to have the shop's jewels overvalued, by getting a letter of endorsement from the Minister of Labor, by persuading even the Mayor and Deputy of Bayonne to "cooperate," Stavisky was able to sell quantities of Credit Municipal bonds many times greater than the assets of his pawnshop. Furthermore, he sold them mostly to big businesses...
Died. William F. Warnecke, 59, New York World-Telegram photographer, whose famed picture scoop of the attempted assassination of Mayor William J. Gaynor (see cut) won him (26 years later) the 1936 Press Photographers' Award; on vacation...