Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That disposed of a contingency which no one had considered imminent, but in another breath the Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA gave another wraith of gossip the substance of a possibility. How, asked interviewers, about his running for mayor of Chicago? "That," said Mr. Ickes, "is my conception of a good idea...
...just happily remarried. Being a reform mayor in a place like Chicago is grueling work, and the stage, even in vasty, gusty Chicago, would be small and local compared to the Interior and PWA. Getting the nomination in February's primary might not be easy, either. State's Attorney Tom Courtney, able and fearless, is burning to be the Nash-Kelly smasher...
Everything seemed to depend on the New Deal's desires in the matter. It has been no fun to have Franklin Roosevelt's most savage critic, the Chicago Tribune, dominating the New Deal's Chicago machine. Mayor Kelly, despite several visits from stodgy "draft-Kelly" committees, could doubtless be shelved by a nice Federal appointment. So, perhaps, could ambitious Tom Courtney, who might even be set up to succeed Governor Horner. Having him for Mayor of Chicago would be no fun for the New Deal either since he is the personal candidate of Colonel Frank Knox...
...managed the (unsuccessful) reform campaigns of John M. Harlan (1905) and Charles E. Merriam (1911) for Mayor. More successful in local politics was his first wife, Anna Wilmarth Ickes, who cut a figure in the Legislature...
...When Tugwell left his $10,000-a-year job as Under Secretary of Agriculture in 1937, his good friend, Charles Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., offered him a job as executive vice president. He accepted, admitted he knew little about the business. When his good friend Mayor LaGuardia next year offered him the planning job, which suited his tastes and paid $15,000, he accepted with alacrity...