Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city will starve even though it means taking all the city's money for relief operations." So promised Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton last week, but the city still had no means of repairing its relief agencies, which broke down when funds ran out three weeks ago. While 75,000 Clevelanders were getting short rations instead of checks, all 19 of Chicago's relief stations last week shut their doors with a bang. Thirty-four thousand of their 93,000 relief cases (each "case" represents about three people) got, instead of monthly checks, baskets doled...
...Guffey and Miner John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle for the Senatorial nomination. To add to the confusion, Governor Earle's ousted State's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti ran for Governor...
Serving his fifth term as mayor of the city of Waterbury (pop.: 98,000) and his second as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes last October got a setback galling to a political boss-his hand-picked Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
...others; in Denver, Colo. The agency: a committee headed by Right Reverend Hugh L. McMenamin, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Reason: pictures and advertisements "suggestive of sex." Authority: Colorado law forbids distribution of obscene literature, provides for mandatory fines and jail sentences for violators. Fortnight ago. Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver appointed the McMenamin committee, instructed his police to enforce any bans it might make. If magazine distributors object to police action, they can sue the police in court...
...high bank of the Hudson River near the braced, tremendous span of the George Washington Bridge, the City of New York owns 56 acres of rock ledge and greenery called Fort Tryon Park. There last week the mayor, the park commissioner, the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the world's greatest philanthropist dedicated a magnificent museum of medieval art. Named "The Cloisters," this finely-proportioned granite building with red tiled roofs lacks nothing but a chapter of Benedictines to be one of the most beautiful monasteries in the world...