Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief candidate for election as the Legion's national commander was Raymond J. Kelly-genial, redhaired, toothy Irishman, ex-artilleryman. He was one of the War Veterans who petitioned Frank Murphy to run for Mayor of Detroit, and as general counsel of the Detroit Street Railways, was part of Frank Murphy's Detroit "New Deal." Later he was appointed Corporation Counsel, the office he now holds...
...leaders of the Communist Party," wrote Mr. Hicks in the weekly New Republic, "have tried to appear omniscient, and they have succeeded in being ridiculous. They have clutched at straws, juggled sophistries, shut their eyes to facts. . . . They have shown that they are strong in faith-which the future mayor may not justify-and weak invitelligence...
...American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, colorful Latin and good American, who called Pan America "a democracy of democracies," said it had no "big brother" and would accept "no ersatz for God Almighty...
George Jessel, radio showman, disclosed a pact between him and James John ("Jimmie") Walker, nimble-witted onetime mayor of New York City, by which the survivor will deliver the other's funeral oration. Showman Jessel has spoken 50 eulogies in the last 15 years. Most memorable one, over the body of Broadway Comedian Jack Osterman last June: "Mr. God, they say you've got a great big heart, so give the boy a great big hand...
Following a visit to the President (see p. 11), San Antonio's Mayor Maury Maverick announced that he favored a third term for Roosevelt "1,000%." Mayor Maverick declared that Fellow Texan Garner's "future is behind him," said: "In a time of emergency like this we cannot afford to have a man as President as old as Mr. Garner is. He is a fine Christian, water-drinking gentleman. . . . No man has ever been elected in his seventies except Harrison* and I think he caught a cold and died in office...