Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This, in Guthrie, Okla., was a fair sample of last week's utterance by New York's volatile progressive Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia who spent his day progressing from New York through Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri, having himself photographed in everything from a western saddle...
Sectionally, Dave Sholtz is weakest nearest .home, partly because of a row with Daytona Beach's lady mayor shortly before Sholtz left office in 1937. His votes will come from some of the State's industrialists and their hired help, remnants of his old machine and new friends picked up during his vigorous campaign...
Samuel Davis Wilson did not rise from Republican Deputy Controller of Philadelphia to Democratic Controller to Republican Mayor to Democratic candidate for U. S. Senatorial nomination by wasting his vituperative talents on invulnerable opponents. To Philadelphians therefore it seemed perfectly natural that shrewd Mr. Wilson last week should choose for a target vulnerable Little Matt...
...riches to eminence as Pennsylvania's foremost practicing liberal by pitching political curve balls. To Pennsylvanians therefore it seemed phenomenally unnatural that Mr. Wilson should have been able to daub Mr. Earle along with Little Matt and to make some of the mud stick on both. Yet the mayor accomplished this feat last week in the furtherance of his effort to do the Governor out of nomination to the Senate...
...Williamsport, Pa., on a platform graced also by the potent Emma Guffey Miller, sister and mentor of U. S. Senator Joseph Guffey, the mayor knowingly inquired: 1) whether Governor Earle had borrowed $30,000 from Little Matt; 2) how many millions of dollars worth of State contracts had been awarded to Contractor McCloskey; and 3) how many McCloskey men the State had appointed to inspect McCloskey jobs. From Harrisburg hapless Debtor Earle replied: "Matthew H. McCloskey has been one of my personal friends. ... As my friend, he made several loans to me during the years 1935 and 1936, prior...