Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When scandal broke its levees in Louisiana last summer, began to rise pocket-deep around public hirelings high & low, a cynical citizenry waited to see what would happen to Huey Long's topmost heirs: ex-Governor Richard Webster Leche. New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, New Orleans Hotelman Seymour Weiss...
...untouched. Federal Judge Thomas Whitfield Davidson in Dallas, ruling last month on a writ of habeas corpus in the "hot oil" case, declared that Mayor Maestri was "just as guilty" as Seymour Weiss and Richard Leche...
After the bomb explosions came screams of the dying. Hospitals were full; wounded had to be dragged into what was left of private houses. The city was crumbling, but still Warsaw fought on, both sexes and all ages behind the barricades. Mayor Straczynski went down into the streets, picked up a shovel and dug trenches. When German tanks blasted their way into the suburbs, the defense hurled bottles of gasoline against them, trying to set them afire...
Tension. Kneeling before William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, on October 7, 1914, Joe Kennedy, Harvard '12, took as his wife Rose Fitzgerald, 22-year-old daughter of former Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald-known as "Honey Fitz" because he charmed voters by crooning Sweet Adeline...
...York City's Hitler-hating Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia broadcast that he would allow no protest rallies before foreign consulates, urged against provocations at public meetings, warned: "The battles will be fought on the fields of Europe. They cannot be fought or settled in the streets of New York...