Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...false-bottomed car was "theatrical." Under grilling he broke down, crying: "I am a poor man. . . . I've always been an honorable one. ... If this jury indicts me I hope it won't make the bail too high." The jury did indict him, along with Mayor Shaw's civil service commissioner, William Cormack, and another officeholder named only as "John Doe," on felony charges carrying a possible 14-year prison sentence...
Meantime, Police Chief Davis, a full-blooded strong man who liked to bait "communists" and to shoot chalk from behind his subordinates' ears with a pistol, resigned before Mayor Bowron could carry out his threat to oust him. Chief Davis explained that he was thinking of his $328 monthly pension. Mayor Bowron explained: "All in all, I cannot but feel that James E. Davis quit under fire...
Same day Mr. Willkie began his testimony in Washington, it was illustrated in Memphis. There the negotiations between the city power commission and National Power & Light Co. for the city's purchase of Memphis Power & Light Co., for which Mayor Watkins Overton has offered $13,500,000, were taken out of the mayor's hands by an intransigent bloc of commissioners steered by Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Unless M. P. & L. cut its price for the electric system and agreed to cut gas rates as well, ultimatumed Boss Crump's men, "we are going to build...
...revivified Sunset each month, Publisher Lane relies on slender, studious, Yankee-blooded William Ichabod Nichols. An ex-Rhodes scholar, he became an assistant Harvard dean (of freshmen) at the age of 22, and once helped elect a mayor of Cambridge, Mass. Now, at 33, Editor Nichols is a confirmed Far Westerner, likes nothing better than to print pictures of cacti and donkeys in the columns of reader-letters which he compiles every month under the heading "Sunset Gold." He gets some fairly flavorsome inquiries from his readership. Samples: "Dear Mr. Editor, I am troubled with buzzards. How can I shoo...
Married. Rexford Guy Tugwell, 47, most handsome original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York City's Planning Commission;* and his onetime assistant, Grace Falke, 30, director of National Youth's art projects; by Mayor LaGuardia; in Manhattan. Mr. Tugwell's first wife, Florence, mother of his two grown daughters, divorced him three months...