Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving rain, at Britain's seacoast town of Deal, the Mayor and a handful of raincoated freemen gathered to pay solemn tribute to a conqueror. The occasion : the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Julius Caesar on the 2,000th anniversary of his invasion...
...Publisher Choate once told a newsman: "It is natural that as sound business interests own the paper, we shall reflect their point of view." But the Republican Herald works hard not to offend anybody in Democratic Boston. It prides itself on an occasional burst of virility. Five days after Mayor James Curley was convicted of fraud last January, the Herald was the only Boston paper to rise up and say (in a carefully modulated voice) that it was perhaps a little regretful that a city of 770,816 should be run from a jail...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, who has received shamrocks from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a painting from the Lord Mayor of Cork and Holland gin from the Burgomaster of Amsterdam, was still taking it-this time a dozen Banbury buns from the Lord Mayor of Banbury...
Married. Baron Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 35, head of the British branch of the great banking family, who forsook finance to become a Cambridge don; and Teresa Georgina Mayor, O.B.E., 30; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...Meadmen who offered him the convention chairmanship for his support, Jim Farley gave a curt no. New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer said yes. So did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to an invitation to be the convention keynoter. If the LaGuardia boom held up, the convention at Albany on Sept. 3 would probably touch off some fancy fireworks...