Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusade to disinfect Miami's city hall of political dysentery, the Miami News won a Pulitzer Prize. Miami got a new mayor and, this week, a new city commission. In last week's primary for the commissioners, a lot of Miami Negroes got something they never had had before: a vote...
...show successfully showed that U. S. artists have done well by their country. Its catalogue, also, was a triumph, as few exhibition catalogues ever are (see col. 1). Slight, scholarly A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor, Associate Curator of Prints, and efficient Josephine Lansing Allen, an assistant curator of paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...
...Lying on Mayor Lyons' desk in the Cambridge City Hall there is a bill which, if signed by him, would provide decent housing for six hundred Cambridge families. The bill has been gathering dust on the desk since February when it was passed by the City Council, and today there is a very definite danger that the United States Housing Authority may withdraw the $4,5000,000 grant which will make these new homes possible unless the bill is signed immediately...
...last few days the Cambridge branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League has been circulating a petition urging Mayor Lyons to sign the bill, It will prove to him that, despite his statements to the contrary, the people of Cambridge really do want the new housing project. In itself, the petition is a good thing, for it is a time-tried method of expressing public opinion. It will crystallize for both Mayor Lyons' and the public's benefit the fact that there is no opposition to the housing bill other than that coming from Mayor Lyons himself...
...objected to this bill; in fact it has voted for the plan all along. Certain members of the Harvard faculty have been active on this issue. But the main pressure has come from Central Square organizations which really want the housing project to go through. Mayor Lyons apparently is blocking the bill because it has, as one of the conditions of the grant, federal control of the project, and the Mayor is used to handing out political plums on jobs of this sort. It is up to the people of Cambridge to sign the petition and to prove...