Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neville Miller got his first real taste of radio when, as mayor of Louisville, Ky., he directed emergency crews during the 1937 Ohio-Mississippi flood. After a spell as executive assistant to Princeton University's President Dodds, Neville Miller returned to the air, succeeded his friend, Louisville Newspaperman Mark Ethridge, as president of the National Association of Broadcasters. Today his rich baritone, speaking for 428 N. A. B. members, is an articulate voice for the U. S. radio industry. Last week, with the industry noisily congregated at N. A. B.'s 17th annual convention in noisy Atlantic City...
Starting on a transcontinental tour in a shiny big Cadillac, San Francisco's wonderboy editor, cocky, carrot-topped Paul Clifford ("Pink") Smith of the Chronicle, last week paused to explain why he had refused to run for mayor. With characteristic candor he delivered himself as follows...
Forty thousand of his fellow citizens thought Wonderboy Smith could boot old Mayor Angelo Rossi out of his job, and signed a petition asking him to try. A good many others thought he would be easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick...
...exemption of Federal. State and municipal securities. Reasons: 1) it would close an avenue of surtax escape to the rich, 2) would halt the diversion of capital from productive private enterprise, 3) would discourage extravagant borrowing by local governments. But to New York City's peppery little Mayor LaGuardia, head of the U. S. Conference of Mayors, the whole idea is ugly...
Louisiana's second Governor Long on his first day in office put flowers on the grave of Brother Huey. Earl Long also conferred with New Orleans' Boss & Mayor Robert S. Maestri, who is the most potent politician left in Louisiana. For his motto Earl Long picked up a Biblical proverb: "Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right...