Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorites champed at the barrier, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer rushed up with another dark horse: an international skyscraper city to be built in the midst of Manhattan...
While most of the nation's politicos were still rubbing liniment into their campaign-sore muscles, Chicago's Republicans last week plunged feverishly ahead to the next event. All over the nation's second largest city billboards shouted: "Root for Mayor...
...could be sure of a clamorous welcome wherever they went-at least outside the New York City area. From every city they had visited, alluring invitations continued to pour in. Philadelphia bolstered its earlier bid with a station-wagon load of new maps and photographs. In from San Francisco, Mayor Roger Lapham hurriedly rushed around New York with a final sales talk...
Comeback. Zhdanov came back to Stalin's favor the hard way. As the Germans approached Leningrad there was no demoralization in the city. Zhdanov, Marshal Klimenty Voroshilov and Leningrad's "Mayor" Peter Popkov turned the tide with a ringing declaration which sent 400,000 Leningraders to the fortifications. Before the 29-month siege ended in 1944, one of the great stories of human endurance had been written...
Died. Albert George Schmedeman, 82, onetime Minister to Norway (1913-21), former Democratic governor of Wisconsin (1933-35), fourtime mayor of Madison; after long illness; in Madison...