Word: mayor
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...course of nine years as a Cleveland judge, four as the city's mayor, ten as Governor of Ohio and twelve as a U.S. Senator, Frank John Lausche achieved a pre-eminence in his state's political pantheon unmatched since the demise of Robert Taft. Lausche also be came crusty, overbearing and - more heinous yet to the Democratic stalwarts who had so long voted him into office -often treated his party like the bastard at the wedding. Last week his inde pendence bore him bitter fruit: Ohio's Democratic voters kicked...
...retrospect, the first big hint of Lausche's political life expectancy came last year when the Governor's protégé, Cleveland's mayor, Ralph Locher, was turned out by Carl Stokes, first Negro to assume command of a major American city. As Lausche's reign crumpled last week, a new dynasty was dawning about the personable Stokes. His older brother Louis, 43, became the Democratic congressional nominee in Cleveland's 21st District by topping a 14-man field, with 28,680 votes to his nearest rival's 15,110. Lou Stokes...
...Then Mayor Charles B. Ryan hurried to Washington to complain about "a rigged deal." But the more inevitable the closing looked, the more Springfield merchants discussed alternatives. They organized a 17-man Armory Planning Committee, ordered private surveys of the 97-acre plant in addition to accepting a $30,000 Government grant for feasibility studies. And they tapped personal contacts. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Chairman Leland Kalmbach talked to a golfing partner, General Electric Vice President Jack Parker, and got a G.E. commitment to move some of its armament operations to Springfield. Now G.E. has leased the armory shops, hired...
...School Committeeman Daniel J. Clinton and City Purchasing Agent Charles F. Watson. In Ward 10, Thomas P. O'Neill III, son of the anti-war Congressman, paced his slate to a victory over the incumbents, and a third faction. In Ward 11 City Councillor Thomas Danchy battled against former Mayor Daniel Hayes and Election Commissioner Thomas J. Hartnett. All three won positions on the committee, but the Danehy slate won a majority of the seats. All in all, the results in these five wards jolted the older politicians. The McCarthy vote had some influence in Wards...
...lives near the playground then suggested the DeWolfe St. site, and the School Committee unanimously voted to have Mayor Walter J. Sullivan look into the matter...