Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a few deep breaths U.N. attaches did a little checking, discovered that stocky, 46-year-old Jimmy O'Neill not only meant what he said, but was capable of carrying out his offer. His Lincoln Warehouse Corp. had moved furniture for ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, many another famous New Yorker. It had carried out huge moving jobs for Tiffany's, General Electric, Radio Corporation of America. Happily, U.N. accepted...
...such as Memphis is big business in which all the stock is owned by the taxpayers. . . . The business of Memphis, Incorporated, has been generally well managed. But now, it seems, a situation has developed [on] which the stockholders . . . are not being informed. It has long been common knowledge that Mayor [Walter] Chandler desires to leave government. . . . The knowledge . . . has naturally led to a great deal of speculation and rumor. Such uncertainty permitted to go on too long will have a destructive effect on institutional morale. Those who have the power of appointment have long known of Mayor Chandler...
...other words: Please, Boss Crump, tell us whom you'll let be mayor next...
...almost ready to make it come true. He had: 1) 90% of the necessary property (in the heart of Flushing, near the site of the last World's Fair), 2) the financial backing of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 3) the unofficial blessing of New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer...
...Mead's stooges quietly let it be known that they were all for good old Fiorello. Even Manhattan's Tammany Hall leaders, who had been Fiorello's whipping boys during his dozen ding-dong years as New York City's Mayor, liked the idea. The C.I.O.-P.A.C. thought it was wonderful. There was strong talk that if the Democrats made Butch their candidate the A.L.P. would put him and Jim Mead at the top of their ticket, too. A boom was born...