Word: mayoress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high jinks and hoopla were staged by busy, black-haired Father Leo T. Mahon, 30, who has been working with Chicago's Puerto Ricans for three years. Ten moppets showed up at city hall to present Mayor Richard J. Daley with a baby lamb named Felicitas, after the mayoress of San Juan, Felisa Rincón de Gautier. The lamb is not only the symbol of Puerto Rico but of the Chicago church's potent and growing organization of Puerto Ricans, the Knights of St. John. Founded in 1954, the Knights now number more than 1,000 families...
...Catholic University in San Juan. (The Cardinal also had 22 of the Diocese's newly ordained priests study Spanish at Georgetown University, sent eight New York priests to serve temporarily in Puerto Rico.) Cardinal Spellman, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, San Juan's Mayoress de Gautier and about 30,000 Puerto Ricans turned out for a Solemn High Mass on the terrace of Keating Hall. And then the fiesta began. Mayor Wagner opened it by shattering a king-sized earthenware piñata (filled with gifts) with a green-covered baseball bat, and both mayor...
...Coventry-Stalingrad Bond of Friendship Committee, invited people from Stalingrad to visit them. There was no response. The Friendship Committee faded out. Then, one day last week, Coventry's Socialist Mayor Harry Weston got a telephone call from the Russian embassy in London. Madame Tatiana Murashkina, deputy mayoress of Stalingrad, was in Britain and would like to visit Coventry...
...smart blond translator, a huge Russian MVD guard, and two solemn Tass reporters. Everybody was at the station to meet her except Mrs. Weston. The mayor said his wife had a cold, but gossips called it a diplomatic illness. Next day, to give gossips the lie, Mayoress Weston put on her hat, went to see Murashkina at her flat, accompanied her on a visit to the communal grave of Coventry's 1,100 blitz victims. Said Mayor Weston, hospitable to the end: "Nothing was said about Korea. What happened to John could have easily happened in Egypt or Malaya...