Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor White's talent-hunting task force, headed by Samuel P. Huntington, Professor of Government, proposed Champion to serve as director...
...Person Is Not Safe." City officials issued some of the sternest warnings in the nation's history against violent behavior. New York's Mayor John Lindsay promised to shake up police assignments so that, within a year, 40% more men would be walking beats (instead of riding desks). "We'll whack away at crime with every damn thing we've got," said Lindsay. Meanwhile, a county grand jury in Nashville urged that the death penalty and heavy prison sentences be imposed to halt "the avalanche of crime and arson that has come upon us," and suggested...
Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley took the opposite tack, calling for passage of stricter state and federal gun-control laws because "there are too many people walking around with guns. We cannot have rule by gun law in our streets." Daley told the city council that he would ask for as many more police as he thought necessary. He used the obviously exaggerated figure of 5,000 more police, and-while the council responded with cheers and a standing ovation -one of its leaders said that they would approve any addition, "7,000 or 70,000." The council...
Newly inaugurated Boston Mayor Kevin H. White appointed Barney Frank '62, a Harvard graduate student in government, as his executive secretary yesterday...
...executive secretary Frank will handle all White's scheduling and supervise all the Mayor's business, while continuing to serve as executive secretary of White's "talent task force...