Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...True, Mayor Herminio Rodríguez still wore a holster on his hip. But he packed no gun. The holster was a good place for carrying a carpenter's rule, a screwdriver, a pair of pliers. Explained Mayor Rodríguez: "Mexico is a law-abiding country now, and it isn't necessary for anybody to carry...
Died. Robert H. Tyndall, 70, Republican mayor of Indianapolis, World War I commander of the crack Rainbow Division's 150th Field Artillery; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis...
...Mindoro province, awoke to find their town invaded and occupied by local revolutionists. Led by Nestor Romero, a 31-year-old Bataan veteran, 31 convicts broke out of the provincial stockade, disarmed their guards and a platoon of sleeping military police, and took over the town. They captured the mayor, the governor of the province, and Paul Leuterio, majority leader of the Philippine House of Representatives. After a 15-hour reign of terror, MP reinforcements routed the rebels, killed Romero...
...expensive speaker," warned New York City's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a letter to Milwaukee's Town Hall. He sounded pretty chipper for a man who had just had a serious operation for chronic pancreatitis (in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital). "I want $1,000. For that money you can get a lot of better speakers. If you still want me, sign here." Milwaukee signed...
...learned that San Francisco was also after him.* Chicago decided not to let Herold Hunt get away, offered him the new job of general superintendent and $25,000 a year-$9,000 more than it has ever paid a superintendent before, $7,000 more than it pays its mayor...