Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit to Flushing Meadow and the United Nations General Assembly, Señior Mike went back to his Manhattan hotel for what was supposed to be a restful weekend. Instead, he took his son, Miguel Jr., 14, for a half-hour subway ride, toured Rockefeller Center, lunched with Mayor Bill O'Dwyer at Gracie Mansion. This week he hit the road again, going first to West Point, then to Tennessee and Alabama to look over TVA, then to Kansas City (to visit an experimental farm, get another degree). Then home...
...York's Mayor O'Dwyer was quoted as saying grimly that if it ever reached his city, the rock would be dumped into the East River. Said his secretary, more softly: "They can send anything they please. But if it blocks traffic, someone is going to get a lot of tickets...
...surprise victory in 1944, but he was too predictably dull; Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings stood too far to the political right; New York's ex-Senator Jim Mead had been beaten to a frazzle by Tom Dewey last November; and New York's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was just a little too unpredictable. New York's present Mayor Bill O'Dwyer fitted a lot of the requirements, but he is constitutionally ineligible, since he was born in Eire...
Roviano's left-wing vote had been preponderantly Communist, Anticoli's Socialist. Roviano's choice of a mayor was easy and quick-local Communist Leader Adalgiso Scacchi, a miner who picked up the gospel from Polish comrades he had worked with in the mines of France and Belgium after World War I. Sober, shrewd Scacchi was not swept off his feet by the post-election rush of citizens wanting to join his party. Said he: "Communism is something you have to learn. Sometimes it takes 20 years, often a lifetime. We only want real Communists-better...
...Comando lo!" Across in Anticoli, there were complications. Local Socialist Leader Carlo Toppi, a jolly, moonfaced sculptor, wasn't quite strong enough to get himself made mayor. During the campaign he had become so excited painting emblems on the town's walls, that he wasn't sure any more that there was a difference between Socialists and Communists. The local Communists suggested that Anticoli needed a mayor with high contacts in Rome itself. Toppi agreed, and Anticoli proudly selected as its mayor a Communist from Rome. His job was that of porter at the Air Ministry...