Word: mayors
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...public meetings, mumbles in monosyllables and exudes a little less social warmth than Marley's ghost. He does not smoke or drink and has never been known to swear. Beyond these traits the other fact for newcomers to learn is that Ben Stapleton is Denver's mayor...
...been mayor since 1923 (except for one term). Under the city's home-rule charter, he has become one of the most powerful municipal dictators in the U.S. But last week there were signs that Democrat Stapleton might be unhorsed. For the first time in a decade he had a tough opponent: wealthy, Yale-trained Republican Quigg Newton, a onetime legal secretary to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who had the backing of a growing reform movement...
...several politically feeble candidates. They pointed to the dirty and rutted streets, the antiquated purchasing methods, the confusing street signs, the inadequate health and police and fire services as examples of Stapleton's do-nothing policy. And they wondered why a city of 380,000 should allow its mayor to appoint, and thereby to control, all municipal employees except the auditor...
...Stapleton was moved by all this, he said nothing. He is a shrewd politician who has worked in or for Denver since the turn of the century. In his five terms as mayor, he has pushed gambling and prostitution outside the city limits, completed the $50 million water system on which Denver's hopes for industrial expansion are based, fought for and built a municipal airport, encouraged tourist money and kept the city free of major strikes...
...both to set a new style. (Since South Africa is a leading producer of ostrich feathers, this feature of the Queen's costume attracted special attention.) At a Civic Ball in the town, Princess Elizabeth danced the Princess Foxtrot (composed in her honor) with Cape Town's Mayor Abe Bloomberg. On the following day the entire family watched a stately quadrille at a huge ball given by the "colored community" in the City Hall. For once royal fashions played second fiddle to a dazzling array of East Indian and Malay costumes as 4,000 variously hued clerks, teachers...