Word: mayor
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That same spring the University had an uncomfortable brush with city politics. Mayor Lyons of Boston inaugurated one of the first Harvard Red scares by charging in April that some undergraduates had been involved in recruiting Cambridge schoolchildren for the Young Communist League. The charges were denied...
...argued Baltimore's Republican Mayor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, stretching his arms out emotionally, "I've been fighting for the same thing CORE wants since 1927. I've sent open-occupancy legislation to our city council three times, and three times the Democrats have killed it. There are many things that need to be changed in our city, and you can help us. You can help me." Taut, trim Major General George Gelston, Baltimore's acting police commissioner, added his voice: "Look, I've only been a policeman since April, and I'm going...
Peking's People's Daily was not mentioning names last week, but its readers knew well enough who had been struck down: Peking Mayor Peng Chen, 67, long considered one of the most powerful men in Red China and now the latest victim of Mao's purge of "antiparty and anti-Socialist revisionists" (TIME, May 13). Quick-witted and confident, Peng was known to Westerners as Peking's "smiling mayor" and had risen to become first secretary of Peking's Municipal Communist Party Committee and a high-ranking member of both the national party...
MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE (Ga.) Ivan Allen Jr., LL.D., mayor of Atlanta (one of the few Southern political leaders ever to be honored by a Negro school...
Established in 1903 in'honor of Edwin Godkin, editor of the Nation, the lectures bring either a scholar or public leader to award each year to discuss the "essential of free government and the duties of the citizens." Lecturers in recent years included Nelson Rockefeller, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert Weaver...