Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week. Mayor Knabb was in the hottest water ever, but still fighting happily. Indictments brought by Prosecutor Purves 1) charged him with accepting a bribe from a slot-machine operator, 2) accused him and the city garbage superintendent of trying to extort $5,000 from Bremerton's No. 1 Citizen, Edward Bremer, in blackmail over a girl. Released on $5,000 bail, Mayor Knabb was promptly greeted by a Better Bremerton League headed by the town's principal ministers, asked to "observe the moral laws as well as the civil laws." Babbled Jesse Knabb: "Aw, those pitiful...
Bremerton, Wash. (pop. 11,053) is notable for its thriving U. S. Navy Yard and for its mayor, who rivals his State's late Congressman Marion Anthony Zioncheck as a wagging political cap-&-bells. When bespectacled little Tailor Jesse A. Knabb lost a mayoralty election in 1933, he jumped off a Bremerton dock before a battery of newsreel cameras. When he won the next one in 1936, his behavior became even stranger. Up to last week eccentric Mayor Knabb had made news...
...Challenging City Prosecutor Ralph E. Purves to a boxing match. When Prosecutor Purves declined, the mayor for no good reason boxed four well-photographed rounds with a Masked Marvel, knocked the Marvel down four times...
When the citizens of Knoxville. Tenn., tired of the city manager form of government, City Manager Walter Mynatt ran for mayor. He had a simple platform: Bring TVA to Knoxville, and was elected. Since then he has been preoccupied with two things besides running the city: higgling with National Power & Light Co. over a reasonable price for its Knoxville properties, and trying to persuade Knoxville's citizens to return to the city manager form of government...
Thrice during the past fortnight. New York's bantam Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia addressed himself to Protestants on religious matters. As a guest of the annual Episcopal diocesan convention the Mayor, an Episcopalian, renewed his appeal for $1,000,000 for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (collected to date: $283,000). To Presbyterians celebrating the 200th anniversary of the New York Presbytery he said: "We could use some more of you; we might even be glad to make some exchange of some others, for you carry a weight in the social services of this city...