Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Place. In Fieldsboro, N.J., Mayor Charles Griffith and three councilmen, two months after election day, suddenly quit, grumbled: "We're not appreciated...
...single out all of the people responsible for the success of the Cleveland Institute is not possible in this space, but TIME, as cosponsor, would like to convey its thanks to the citizens of Cleveland and the members of its Council; to Cleveland's Mayor Thomas Burke and Ohio's ex-Governor Frank J. Lausche; to the National Broadcasting Company (for producing nine special programs on the forum and broadcasting them coast-to-coast); to Cleveland's local radio stations (for the 31 forum programs they sent out over their transmitters); to the U.S. State Department...
...when Patel had become the mayor of Ahmedabad, unofficial capital of Gujerati-speaking India, his extraordinary skill as an organizer showed itself for the first time during the great Gujerat floods. Everything broke down-transport, communications, all methods of distribution. The general Indian attitude used to be to regard such catastrophes as acts of God What little relief there was usually came from a British Government which took its good time to relieve distress. Patel initiated an unheard-of fund-raising drive for the relief of the flood victims. Supplies were moved into the flood areas by hundreds of volunteers...
Local pedestrians will have to consult their hymarx on glacier-fording and pray for no snow--at least for the remainder of this winter. The Cambridge snow disposal department, reaching for the collected works of a strong figure in the naturalist school, former Mayor Russell of Cambridge, says that as far as ice deposits on "unimportant" Cambridge streets are concerned, "God put it there and God will take it away." Coming in an era of atom bombs, Mark I automatic calculators, and, of all things, snow removal machines, such an attitude seems to take on definite defeatist implications. One might...
...deathlike quiet, the boarded-up ghost town had stirred in its creaking coffin-and emerged into a new life. In a three-day-long celebration, Aspen (pop. 1,500) marked its rebirth as a skiing center. Colorado's Governor Lee Knous gave Edith Robinson, daughter of Aspenjs mayor, a push off to open the is,000-ft. ski tow, longest in the world (see cut). With six 14,000-foot peaks near by, plenty of dry, powdery snow, and multi-million-dollar backing, Aspen was out to become the top winter-sport playground...