Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city men in the House for the $383,000,000 increases which the Senate wrote into the 1940 farm bill (TIME, May 22) and which last week were threshed by House-Senate conferees. Besides Actress Bankhead, another lobbyist for Relief who last week journeyed to Washington from Manhattan was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Having served seven terms in Congress himself, he knew just what to do. He got city men in the House to offer their support of the farm bill increases in return for country men's promises to liberalize the Relief bill...
...where arthritis born of infected teeth had him down. And he announced that illness constrained him to resign, bequeathing the governorship to Huey's ambitious, vituperative Brother Earl, the Lieutenant Governor. Said Richard Leche: "Mr. Long has tremendous backing throughout the country and is the announced choice of Mayor Robert S. Maestri of the city of New Orleans...
Huey's onetime boy friends, Mayor Maestri and Hotelman Seymour Weiss of New Orleans, were no less interested in this development than was State Senator James A. Noe, onetime friend of Huey's friends. It was Mr. Noe who was reported to have stirred up Washington columnists, hoping thereby to better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother...
...Federal Theatre Project was killed (Illinois' Republican Dirksen buried it on the House floor by reading some of its play titles : Lend Me Your Husband, The Mayor and the Manicurist, Up in Mabel's Room, Did Adam Sin?, A New Deal for Mary). Other white-collar projects may be continued only if "sponsored" (partly paid for) by communities...
...believe it is the most sacred and precious spot at the Fair," cried New York's Mayor LaGuardia at the opening. Precious to the tune of $30,000,000 in insurance, the paintings were hung in a windowless concrete and steel building, thorny with burglar alarms, guarded day & night by a Pinkerton detective in each of the 25 rooms. But because no grandeurs were attempted and most of the pictures were small. World's Fair trippers could get through the show on their first legs rather than their last...