Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absent newsmen and politicos had gathered elsewhere, in Room 331 of the Morrison Hotel. There smart, ulcer-ridden little Jake Arvey, the new boss of the old Kelly machine, was introducing the Democrats' candidate to succeed Ed Kelly as mayor: a husky businessman, Martin Kennelly...
Martin Kennelly pulled no punches. He reminded the committeemen (who needed no reminding) that he had successfully fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 when he backed Henry Horner for the governorship; that he had fought Kelly again, though unsuccessfully, when he boomed Tom Courtney for the mayor's seat in 1939. He had not changed a bit, he said. He was going to go ahead on his own; if his ideas clashed with the machine, the machine would have to yield...
Last week flamboyant Davis had an answer wrapped in a typical British understatement. Said Mayor Arthur A. Goodfellow of Dover: "We agree that a memorial to Churchill might be a good thing, but something more modest and utilitarian would be preferable...
...gave Bermúdez a reputation for a close sense of duty almost from the day he entered politics in the sleazy border town of Ciudad Juárez, where he had made a $6 million fortune distilling Waterfill Frazier bourbon whisky. Within two weeks of his election as mayor in 1942, he had launched such a housecleaning as Mexico had rarely seen. He cracked down on a free-flowing traffic in narcotics, stolen autos and women, kicked grafters out of the city hall. He was the sort of independent President Alemán wanted to bring order...
...dancing contests. Winners got loving cups marked with such slogans as "More If You Want It" and "Each Year It's Better." Observers gave the Communists a good chance to win a majority of the council, wondered how they would get along with Rio's Government-appointed mayor who might not have much use for them...