Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pieces of metalwork, hurled them at department-store windows. Damage was estimated at $50,000, 40 sit-downers and police had to be hospitalized. Among the most seriously hurt was a former Communist leader, Steve Brodie, now styled as secretary of the Single Unemployed Protective Association. Vancouver's Mayor George Clark Mille promised an investigation of Leader Brodie's beating...
...friends on the homicide squad. Investigator Raymond and Lawyer Rose had been digging into the connections between the Shaw administration and the city's biggest gamblers. Some of these, according to witnesses Lawyer Rose put on the stand, had given Harry Munson-henchman and onetime campaign manager of Mayor Frank L. Shaw-"fistfuls of $100 bills" for use in the mayor's electioneering. The homicide squad found that Raymond had been trailed for three months by Earle E. Kynette, acting captain of the police department's intelligence squad...
...that point, Los Angeles County's big-nosed, big-talking, grandstanding District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts-whom the Clinton reformers had long been attacking as fiercely as they had the mayor-unexpectedly jumped into action. He secured grand jury indictments charging beefy Captain Kynette and two aides with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and malicious use of explosives, the first of which carries a possible death penalty. For nine weeks the Kynette trial has been Southern California's biggest political circus. District Attorney Fitts, eagerly re-establishing himself as a legal White Knight...
...City Council hastily turned down a pending $90,000 appropriation for the Kynette squad, entertained a resolution introduced by Councilman James Hyde and plugged by the Clinton reformers for recall proceedings against Mayor Shaw and his police chief, Joseph Davis...
Most surprising upset of the election was the showing of Dublin's Lord Mayor, Alfred Byrne, Fine Gael Party member. For 20 years dapper, little "Alf" has ruled the Dublin roost. Last week, his total poll barely gave him the third seat under proportional representation in Dublin's Northeast district as "Dev's" Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Oscar Traynor, took the first, a Cosgravite the second...