Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the howl set in-from churchmen, clubwomen, and from bookies and slot-machine operators, who naturally preferred the present system, under which they pay graft but get a larger take themselves. Mayor Morrison would have given the suckers a better break...
...Orleans' new, independent, cleanup Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison (TIME, Feb. 4) thought he had something. Since New Orleans would always have gambling, why not legalize it? Besides, a gambling tax would bring in added city revenue...
...Joseph Medill's crown prince on the Tribune, and gave young Joe his first $15-a-week job. Impatient with the plodding Tribune and full of admiration for Hearst, he quit in disgust, won a seat in the Illinois legislature, stumped Chicago for a reform candidate for mayor, was rewarded with the job of public works commissioner...
...mayor (for two terms), as county trustee (for eight years), and then as just a plain political boss, he slugged and beat and charmed his way to power. Always, he fought the "interests." When the Frisco and N.C. & St.L. railroads failed to agree with his interpretation of their franchises, he marched out with a crowbar, tore up their tracks, and stationed police over his handiwork...
...week Crump's power was so complete, so zealously guarded, that opposition and disloyalty were rare. Few Memphis citizens ever spoke out against him. Sensible men who wished to enter politics visited the boss, asked his permission, accepted the inevitable quietly if he refused. His chief lieutenants, like Mayor Walter Chandler and District Attorney William Gerber, passed on Crump doctrine without the slightest deviation...