Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's ex-mayor, Ed Kelly, still one of the country's shrewdest political observers, dropped into the White House last week with a few Midwestern Democratic committeemen for an informal chat. On his way out, Ed Kelly made a little prediction about the man he had just seen: "Unless he gets hit by a freight train, he's going to be around for a long time...
General Chang had often stood up for Generalissimo Chiang. In 1931, as mayor of Shanghai, Chang arrested militant student leaders on orders from Chiang. Five thousand fellow students thereupon invaded the municipal offices, captured Chang, and made him stand up (literally) for a day and a night, listening to speeches denouncing him and Chiang Kaishek. Released, Chang left the municipal building in an ambulance...
...hospital staff members, 1,000 guests in the city's flophouse. Some 2,500 patients who had been discharged from a city hospital during LeBar's stay there were called back for vaccination. Thousands of New Yorkers queued up at vaccination centers. At week's end, Mayor William O'Dwyer decided to "pour in every available piece of machinery and manpower to insure that every person in the city is vaccinated." He summoned the city's 175,000 wartime air-raid wardens to ring doorbells, set up free vaccination centers in police stations, health centers...
...plotters certainly had enough rank to excite an OSS agent: the ringleaders were Colonel General Ludwig Beck, onetime German Chief of Staff, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, onetime mayor of Leipzig. Among the men indirectly involved were Field Marshal von Kluge, the Western Front army chief, and Field Marshal Rommel. (Says Dulles: Beck, Kluge and Rommel subsequently died violent deaths; the ex-mayor was executed...
...Mayor J. C. Trahan, who wears a purple heart for buzz bomb wounds received in Belgium, said "no buzz bomb could ever compare with what happened here today. It is such a terrific tragedy that the people have not been able to realize what happened...