Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubbernecker inelegantly described George Catlin's incomparable frontier paintings, have been banished from the upstairs corridor. Pieces from the White House vermeil collection have replaced Lady Bird Johnson's personal collection of porcelain birds, and a wooden gavel inscribed to the President, a gift from the Mayor of Vincennes, Ind., rests on an end table...
...most fitting that the City Hall of Boston have character and independence. After all, the Mayor inherits his office from such men as James Michael Curley...
Reacting last week with an extraordinary public display of spleen, Daley spluttered that Humphrey had not been his personal choice for President. His preference, he said obliquely, was "the name of a former President"-though it was no secret that the mayor had held out for the unavailable Ted Kennedy at the Democratic Convention...
...mayor is still miffed at Humphrey for addressing a rump group of disaffected Illinois Democrats last month. But, as Humphrey commented, "nothing I've said or done should have provoked" Daley's reaction. After all, it was only four weeks ago that Hubert called His Honor "one of the truly outstanding mayors of the nation...
...released a coon and a pack of hounds in the middle of dinner. Another original is Seattle's Lorenzo Milam, who lives on a houseboat, runs the Jean-Paul Sartre Memorial No Exit Roominghouse, teaches literature in a reformatory and currently hopes to become Seattle's "existentialist" mayor by "abolishing the environment" so that "there would be nothing to pollute...