Word: mayoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...likeliest qualifiers for a run-off primary, gave Senator Smith some chance of winning a majority on the first vote, next week. If he wins then or later, he will owe thanks to two friends of Franklin Roosevelt who refused to play their part in the Presidential purge: Mayor Burnet R. Maybank of Charleston, leading candidate for Governor, and South Carolina's junior Senator James ("Jimmy") Byrnes. They are fond of "Cotton Ed." and they know he cannot live forever. If he dies with his Senatorial boots on. Mr. Maybank may slip into them and Jimmy Byrnes (who, coming...
Jimmy Hines has never been Tammany's titular Boss, like Richard Croker who was hounded out of the U. S., or William Tweed who was locked behind bars in 1873 for negligence and misconduct in office. Nor has he ever held a job as exalted as Tammany Mayor James J. Walker, who resigned under fire from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. But, running his district like a patriarch for a quarter-century, passing out countless Christmas turkeys and good jobs at his Monongahela Democratic Club, he has been a potent voice in Tammany's inner councils...
When, after the opening rally on Randall's Island, the Congress delegates went to Vassar for their deliberations, Poughkeepsie's Acting Mayor William B. Duggan refused them the city's welcome. But Dr. MacCracken greeted them warmly, as did New York's Mayor Fiorello H. La-Guardia and three New Deal officials, led by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. From nearby Hyde Park Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt came to address the delegates, became so interested that she returned to crochet and listen at two more sessions...
...last week museum and cat were the subject of public clamor. Members of the Women's Chamber of Commerce called on the mayor for repeal of the special tax from which the museum derived $239,000 last year. The city director of public welfare proposed diversion of the tax to hospitals. Pickets sweltered at City Hall complaining that the cat was an affront to Labor. Six St. Louis members of the American Artists' Congress chimed in with a demand that the museum buy "indigenous" art. "It is hard for many of us," said they, "to see the lasting...
...office of San Francisco's Mayor Angelo Rossi went Actress Gertrude Lawrence (Susan and God), where she received the key to the city. Formalities over, Mayor Rossi told Miss Lawrence his next date was at the Examiner's Hole-in-One Tournament, asked her to go along. Off they drove to Lincoln Park. "I want to play," said she, "but what shall I do? I'm wearing high heels." While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy...