Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor of Louisville had undertaken a backbreaking job with breathtaking plans: 1,200,000 new dwelling units in 1946, another 1,500,000 next year. His latest figures counted approximately 895,000 already started. But nearly half of this paper shelter was still uncompleted; over a third was makeshift housing, not permanent building. Home-hungry veterans hunted in vain for the $6,000 house of Wyatt's first dreams...
...Bright-eyed, pint-sized K. C. Wu has not made Shanghai into a model city, but as its tireless mayor he has quashed the rice black market, raised coolie living standards and, by a combination of cajoling, arguing and policing, kept labor troubles at a minimum. His Confucius-like warning to labor and capital: "When hen is dead, no eggs will come." Called "The Mandarin Mayor" by some resentful employers and union men, K. C. Wu has won the support of foreigners, one of whom recently said: "If China had more K. C. Wus, I'd know the Chinese...
Lavender & Jazz. In 1925, when the aroma of moonshine hung like lavender over the big Bull Market, Tammany ran him for mayor. He was the people's choice. He was an hour and a half late to his own inauguration and late to almost every public ceremony thereafter. He called himself "The Late Mayor." He filled city offices with sluggish Tammany favorites. He kept a wardrobe of 70 $165 suits, drove about the city in a $17,000 Duesenberg. He lolled happily at the fabulous Central Park Casino with his mistress, musical comedy star Betty Compton (whom he afterwards...
...York was sobered by the depression. In 1932, during the famed Seabury investigation, Jimmy Walker heard himself charged with responsibility for civic corruption and maladministration of city affairs. He never denied it, he never admitted it. But a few months later he abruptly resigned as mayor...
This week Hoagy will broadcast from back home in Indiana, where Indianapolis Mayor Robert H. Tyndall has proclaimed "Hoagy Carmichael Day." Hoagy (short for Hoagland) was born in Bloomington, Ind. in 1899. His father was an electrician; his mother, an early ragtime pianist, played in a local movie. (Says Hoagy: "She's 70 now, but she can still swing the bass handle.") At 20, Hoagy went to Indiana U., then a hotbed of hot music, and promptly began flying about with a flock of undergraduate musicians known as the "Bent Eagles." Their diversions: "Sensuously . . . stroking lemon meringue pie," "muggling...