Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to believe that Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew will now begin a four-year term in Washington because of the timing of three men. Mayor Richard J. Daley gave up on Hubert Humphrey a little too early, President Johnson sat on his hands a little too long, and Senator Eugene McCarthy did not realize there were other people in this country until it was a little too late...
...Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty is not a man to shirk his civic duty. There he was in front of city hall, amiably lying on a plank supported by two chairs, while a magician hovered nearby. Then the magician slowly removed each chair, leaving the Mayor apparently suspended in midair. The reason for all the levity was an "Academy of Magical Arts" day, proclaimed to promote the cause of magic in L.A. Sam certainly rose to the occasion. "There's often a need for magic in politics," he said. "Why, as mayor, you have to have the ability...
...Nevertheless, the 1968 elections apparently fell short of previous years when it came to dilly-Daleying. "This was the cleanest election we've had in Chicago in at least 20 years," said Charles Barr, head of a group of 5,000 Republicans who policed the polls. In response, Mayor Daley suggested-not without cause-that reporters should investigate why, in the era of the voting machine, officials in some Republican-controlled precincts in Illinois still insist on using paper ballots...
CHICAGO--The Order of Paul Revere Patriots has welcomed its newest member--Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley--who can now enjoy privileges denied to lesser citizens of the Commonwealth...
...letter to the University and the Cambridge City Government, Boston Mayor Kevin H. White indicated that Boston would accept Harvard's conditions again this year...