Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smooth-running in Mr. Ickes' pump house, however. With two mayors at opposite ends of the land he was having trouble. Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco had only with difficulty been persuaded to move up from November to September a bond issue referendum to enable San Francisco, with PWA help, to buy the Hetch Hetchy power lines. And Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was, to Mr. Ickes' way of thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead...
...minded peasants struck at the two-year rule of Greek Dictator General John Metaxas. They marched into the stony streets of Canea, ancient seaport and capital of Crete. At their head stepped former Minister of National Economy in the Athens Government, young Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Venizelos, and ex-Mayor Mountakis of Canea...
...Palmer Davidson of Montclair, N. J., tired of traffic noises outside his house, complained to Mayor William E. Speers that he had taken to sleeping with clamshells clamped over his ears...
...over his teamsters, other unions, Seattle businessmen and Seattle politicians. Evidence that Boss Beck might be in a decline appeared early this year, when in Seattle's elections droves of A. F. of L. voters deserted to C. I. O. candidates. The fact that middle-of-the-road Mayor Arthur B. Langlie defeated both labor rivals did not help Dave Beck, did not stop the C. I. O. invasion of his domain. Last winter, Dave Beck's Oregon lieutenant, Portland Teamster Al Rosser, and some 100 henchmen were rounded up, indicted for crimes varying from bombing to arson...
...sycophant either to Franklin Roosevelt or C.I.O., Maury Maverick in two terms placed himself well to the left of the President, got into A.F. of L.'s bad graces by espousing much liberal legislation approved by C.I.O. At home, he rashly antagonized Mayor Charles Kennon Quin's San Antonio machine and the potent Irish-Catholic vote. Last week Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday-an Irishman, Roman Catholic and Quin machinist-beat Maury Maverick by 546 votes in 49,312 votes cast. Said Maury Maverick: "Lincoln got beat four times. I guess I can take it once...