Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election day he went to the polls with his grandmother and grandfather, John F. ("Honey") Fitzgerald, onetime Mayor of Boston. Then he sneaked off to a movie, A Night in Casablanca. That night, when returns showed he had beaten his toughest rival in his home territory, grave, earnest, teetotaling Jack Kennedy knew he was in. Rarely has a Republican Congressman been elected from the Eleventh District...
Jimmy Walker, Manhattan's natty "nightclub mayor" of the '20s, turned an impossible 65. He looked better than ever. "I'm watching out," he said. "I'm taking care. I'm going home nights. Eleven o'clock-bedtime...
Alexander P. de Seversky, planemaker and armchair strategist (Victory through Airpower), was elected mayor of Asharoken Village, N.Y. He got 23 of the 40 votes cast. Village trustee: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg...
Eddie Cantor went to Denver to award the city a handsome plaque for the safe-&-sane state of its street traffic, was dined by the mayor at the country club. Out to the club to police the dinner went all the cops in the business district, and Denver suffered its worst traffic tie-up in history...
...largest in her 200 years; 10,000 alumni from 52 classes were singing Going Back to Nassau Hall. Tired businessmen, bankers, lawyers and bond salesmen joyfully shucked off their Brooks Brothers' pinstripes and climbed into silly Mardi Gras costumes for a lost weekend. For four days Mayor Minot Morgan Jr., '35 and the police of little Princeton borough (pop. 7,719) were as busy as if the Legion had come to town...