Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends when they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit the U.S. Said Truman: "We have never had such a reception. ... I am tempted to come and run for mayor of Rio de Janeiro and I think I could be elected...
...Associated Press analyst figured out that if California's population has kept up its tremendous rate of growth since July 1946, it is now the second largest state. Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron declared firmly that his city is now the nation's third largest, with nearly two million population. The 1950 census would decide...
...London at 4 in the morning, and by hard riding reached York (180 miles away) in the afternoon; "put off his Boots and riding Cloaths, and went dress'd as if be had been an Inhabitant of the Place to the Bowling-green," where he asked the Lord Mayor what time it was. Later a jury acquitted him, on his lordship's swearing to his alibi. King Charles II, hearing of this exploit, graciously congratulated the hero...
Thumbs Down. In 1938, Big Ed Kelly, then mayor, had wangled an $18 million federal appropriation to help Chicago build its first small rabbit-run of subway. He got it on condition that all the city's transportation facilities be unified-and improved. His city councilmen dutifully passed a unification plan. The plan was approved by voters in a referendum, by surface and elevated line bondholders, and by the federal court which had jurisdiction over the bankrupt operating companies. But in 1943 the Illinois Commerce Commission rejected Kelly's proposals as "unsound...
Died. Frederick ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, 79, notorious GOPolitical boss of Chicago in its toughest, Al Capone-infested days; of a coronary thrombosis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An oldtime machine politician, Lundin was the power behind William Hale ("Big Bill') Thompson's 1915 election as mayor and Governor Len Small's infamous state administration...