Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albany's Mayor Erastus Corning, II, in effect, agreed. On that basis Corning had ruled that Robeson could not sing in Philip Livingston Junior High School. A public school, said the mayor, should not be open to an artist identified with Communism. But the New York State Supreme Court reversed Corning and, in effect, Robeson, by ruling that singing is an artistic performance "and nothing else." Robeson could appear in the high school...
Last week in Shanghai, frightened and furious over persistent mob raids on their shops (nine in one day), some 300 rice merchants milled in front of City Hall. They shouted for protection. Mayor K. C. Wu refused it. They called for a gag on Little Happiness. Mayor Wu refused that. Someone cried: "Let's go to Heavenly Voice radio station and take care of Little Happiness ourselves!" Others echoed...
...week to be a mayor...
...Mayor Martin Kennelly of Chicago, who makes a point of double-quick refuse collecting, got a complaint from a citizen whose wife had accidentally thrown $30 in the garbage: the collectors had whisked the stuff away before the couple could rescue the money. Kennelly quieted the man down-and set a perilous precedent -by forking over $30 out of his own pocket...
...Mayor Earl Riley of Portland, Ore., home from a visit to San Francisco, got a visit from San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham, who dropped in to sympathize. Riley was abed with three busted ribs after a skid in a San Francisco bathtub...