Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Danger of Reasonableness. On receiving the news, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, the former mayor of West Berlin, hurried back from Vienna. Ironically, he had been on his way to Belgrade to seek President Tito's support for West Germany's new policy of easing tensions with the East bloc. In Bonn, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger held an emergency Cabinet session. In Paris, London and Washington, the allies, who guarantee West Berlin's security, conferred about what to do. The painful decision was to do nothing, aside from making a few perfunctory gestures. Kiesinger flew...
Walter E. Washington, LL.D., mayor of Washington, D.C. As a walking mayor, going to the streets where the action is, he has shown deep concern for the difficult and stubborn problems of the city's people...
Carl B. Stokes, LL.D., mayor of Cleveland...
...decline of few other institutions could have wounded Boston's civic pride more. In the 1930s, during Mayor James Curley's heyday, Boston City was considered one of the nation's finest municipal hospitals. Curley kept it well staffed, often with his supporters, and made sure Boston's Irish got medical care "second to none." It still ranks as a first-rate research center, as a result of its affiliations with the Harvard, Tufts and Boston University medical schools, but that hardly helps patients with ordinary ailments...
...with spreading urban decay and soaring annual deficits, a strapped city hall felt compelled to place the hospital's money requests far behind other needs, such as schools, slum demolition and downtown renewal. Three years ago, the hospital's accreditation was put on probation. Still, newly installed Mayor Kevin White, who has switched the emphasis to low-income housing and neighborhood improvement, reluctantly cut $6,000,000 from this year's $36 million hospital budget...