Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Oswego High School was placid as a summer day. Principal Salter had promptly suspended nine rowdy ringleaders. One of them was Andrew ("Bud") Pierce, son of the town's mayor...
...Board of Education, even more impressed by protests from Catholic groups than by their responsibility toward innocence, decided not to teach "mammalian reproduction." But Mr. Buck was not done. He sent his secretary, Eugene R. Canudo (onetime secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia) to make an investigation into youthful sex problems in the nation's biggest city. Mr. Canudo collected literature on sex education. He also went to the courts, the police, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Last week he brought back a report that caused the Board of Education to reconsider its decision. Salient facts...
Into the office of New York City's Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia last week marched indignant New York City florists. Their complaint: School principals, sympathizing with depression-pinched parents, had nipped in the bud an old U. S. custom: flowers at graduation. Cried Spokesman Anthony Gillis (to no avail): "Every year we look forward to graduation. Now flowers are forbidden. This goes to show there is something wrong somewhere...
...best" Republican Presidential nominee in 1940 would be Racket Buster Tom Dewey, picked by 12.2% of all adult citizens; next, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg or New York City's New Dealing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, each liked by 11.5%-choices from a list of eight possibilities among whom 38% of the voters declined to choose; not included in the list were such recent Republican celebrities as Ohio's Senator Taft and Governor Bricker, Massachusetts' Governor Saltonstall, Minnesota's Governor Stassen, Pennsylvania's Governor James. (FORTUNE...
...Virginia's fleshy Clifton Alexander Woodrum, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee in charge, the Representatives curtly dismissed an appropriation of $1,050,000,000 suggested by the Workers Alliance, of $1,000,000,000 by C. I. O., of $915,000,000 by Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, representing the U. S. Conference of Mayors. Without even taking a record vote on the President's figure, they lopped off $150,000,000, set their own figure...