Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose City, Mich. (pop. 350), neighbor was set against neighbor. There were secret meetings, plots and stratagems. Mayor Norton King plastered the town with placards: "Keep calm and collected for a few days until we can settle this among ourselves." Old Mrs. Jennie Lazenby said she hadn't seen so much excitement since the lumbering days. The cause of all the rumpus was the Rev. Cecil Scott...
Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Eleanor Roosevelt cried out against the bill. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, his eye on the governorship, went so far as to proclaim a municipal "Veto Day." Two former chairmen of the old War Labor Board, William H. Davis and George W. Taylor, said the bill was unworkable. The National Catholic Welfare Conference (membership: all U.S. Catholic bishops) condemned it as playing right into the hands of Communists. The Communists cried that the bill was a sellout to reactionaries...
...City he controlled governors, judges, U.S. Senators. But the cost of Hague came high. As the taxes rose, people and industries moved away. After 1940, Hague's machine became less & less effective at the polls, lost most of its state patronage. Last month, in Hoboken, a Hague henchman, Mayor Bernard McFeely, was defeated for re-election (TIME, May 26). Frank Hague could read the portents...
...years remained of his eighth term as mayor. By walking out now, he could give nephew Eggers those two years to learn the ropes. Eggers would gradually be given Hague's other jobs, and Uncle Frank could devote more time to watching horse races. This was fine, except that many veteran Jersey City ward leaders were worried about the future. At week's end, there were rumblings of revolt against untried nephew Eggers...
After a fight with Boston's notorious Mayor Curley, Gruening was forced to resign as managing editor of the Boston Traveller. Then he edited the failing Boston Journal. Later he went to Manhattan to find out what was the matter with Frank Munsey's New York Sun. His findings were not appreciated; he decided that Munsey was causing all the trouble...