Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty (The Egg and I) MacDonald, whose airy literary omelet is the nation's favorite dish, got a deep bow from her adopted state of Washington. The governor, the mayor and the president of the state Farmers' Association were among the benders-from-the-waist at eating and oratorical festivities in Seattle. Authoress MacDonald watched what she ate; after five years of staggering headaches she had discovered the trouble: she was allergic to eggs...
...League, had been waiting for. They had failed in all the usual approaches to the Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor sat tight. At dusk eleven vets, their wives and 18 children rumbled out to Kildare Barracks in trucks. They unloaded beds, stoves, washing machines, etc., and set up house. By midnight, the children were tucked in bed, the parents...
...much more. Last spring they organized an independent union, the Norwalk Teachers' Association, to raise minimums from $1,700 to $2,000, maximums from $3,200 to $4,500. The city's Board of Education called the demands "impossible" and tried to dicker with individual teachers. Mayor Edward J. Kelley* felt sure the teachers' "civic pride" would triumph over their pocketbooks...
...last week the Mayor's daughter was one of the strikers (they prefer to be known as "non-starters"). The nonstarters, well aware of a nationwide shortage of 125,000 teachers, took a full-page ad in the Norwalk Hour to say that they were tired of working at "bargain-basement prices." A North Carolina school superintendent promptly wired a bid for two eighth-grade teachers...
...confused with Chicago's confused Mayor Edward J. Kelly, who has school troubles of his own (TIME, July...