Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayor of Philadelphia. Now he is running for the U. S. Senate, sole candidate of a "Pathfinder Party," excoriating the Wagner Act and the C. I. O. Without party organization, without campaign funds, he motors 200 miles a day in a sound-truck fashioned like a railroad locomotive. In it he and four friends (two of them sound engineers), carrying their lunches, draw up on hilltops overlooking towns, turn on a magnavox contraption powered by compressed air, and while the populace marvels, Candidate Naugle hurls his thundering political imprecations for miles across the Pennsylvania wilderness...
Died. Harry Arista Mackey, 65, one-time (1928-31) mayor of Philadelphia; as the result of an automobile accident; in Philadelphia. While he was mayor he sometimes disguised himself in tatters and false whiskers to wander at night among the city's poor and jobless...
Brass tacks are what politics is made of, and last week the Democratic high command at Washington got down to them with Frank Hague, perpetual mayor of Jersey City and boss of populous Hudson County. So sharp is the contrast between ironfisted, authoritarian Boss Hague and the libertarian New Deal that last summer Franklin Roosevelt felt obliged to reprimand the Boss publicly, if anonymously, for his suppression of civil liberties in Jersey City (TIME, July 4). The Department of Justice even went to the extent of sending G-Men to investigate Socialist Norman Thomas' complaint about being bums-rushed...
...mixed group of over 600 students and politically wise local citizens Mayor Maurice J. Tobin will speak extemporaneously tonight on "Boston City Administration" in the New Lecture Hall...
...Faffs husband is a loyal WNYC fan and a patriot to boot, Mrs. Faff had a problem on her hands. She wrote the station that he made her get out of bed both times, complained: "It is rather upsetting....Have you any suggestions?" Stumped, WNYC referred the letter to Mayor La-Guardia. The Mayor was stumped too, asked the Army, the Navy, the D.A.R. what Mrs. Faff should do. Nobody seemed to know...