Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after World War I, Denver dreamed more of the past than of the future. So did Mayor Ben Stapleton (TIME, March 10). Old Ben was one of the most powerful city bosses in the U.S., but he devoted himself mainly to falling asleep at banquets and opposing change. But when Denver woke to the alarm-clock jangle of World War II, and began to grow and get new industry, its 77-year-old boss suddenly seemed as outmoded as a wooden sidewalk...
...from violins played by Fishermen Rupert Manuel and Vaughan Boutilier, an accordion played by Bus Driver Jordan Cook and a guitar played by Mrs. Cecil Caves. On Sundays, Peggy's citizens attend St. John's (Anglican) Church, where 83-year-old Fisherman Albert Crooks, known as the "mayor" of the community, pumps the organ. Each night, at dusk, Fisherman Manuel walks over the rocks to light the oil lamp in Peggy's lighthouse...
...public of its own. Fifteen hundred of her fans gathered in the Masonic Temple for a silver anniversary. There were special tables full of people whose causes she had supported: the Salvation Army, the Old Newsboys, the Michigan Crippled Children's Hospital. Detroit's Mayor Edward J. Jeffries saluted her. The president of Wayne University, David D. Henry, said that "she has helped to make our town great...
...henchmen out of office. As the returns came in, they cheered, waved torchlights and paraded in the streets. Three of the new city commissioners were Italians, one was an Irish cop whom McFeely had persecuted, and one was a C.I.O. union leader. An Italian, Fred M. DeSapio, became mayor...
Died. Harry Bacharach, 73, five times mayor (1911-20, 1930-35) and longtime "No. 1 Booster" of Atlantic City; in Atlantic City. An ardent publicity-grabber (he once carried on the city's business in an amusement-pier office flanked by an educated chimpanzee and a half-man-half-woman), he nonetheless worked noisily at keeping his resort free of known thugs and "undesirables...