Word: mayors
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Leon Clausen, president of J. I. Case Co. (farm machinery), is a rugged individualist. The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Labor, the NLRB, the regional WLB and the Mayor of Racine had all failed to break down his stubbornness. But Clausen had his own views on how to settle the strike of 3,500 U.A.W. workers at his company's Racine (Wis.) plant. His solution, as reported by a committee of machinery-starved farmers: "When these men have been out long enough and their families get hungry enough, the strike will...
Political corruption has a long and unsavory history across the Charles River. It dates back to the days of John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, who just after the turn of the century managed to capture the mayor's office for the Democrats in the face of a Republican legislature. The Republicans began legislating powers out of the mayor's hands and into its own patronage grab bag, with the result that an authority has been so divided it was impossible to fix the blame for the Cocoanut Grove disaster in 1942 and Hub bureaucracy has been left hopelessly confused...
Curley Acts as Mayor...
...Bostonians. One of the first functions he addressed was a dinner in honor of a judge, sponsored by the Archbishop and attended by the Governor. He had just finished paying his installments on the $32,000 the city made him give back after one of his terms as mayor...
...spite of a defeat last year in the legislature, the President of the League holds high hopes for her bill this year. She points out that before the legal red tape of petition and referendum can be brushed aside three years will have clapsed. Curley's term as mayor will have expired, so that Plan E cannot be damned in Boston by Placing an anti-Curley label...