Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor. It was a rough, wild-eyed campaign. The ring-tailed tooter tooted against the "interlocking, circling, double-back, double-crossing interests." When thugs charged his meetings, he and the boys battled back. He was elected by 79 votes. From that day on he was the boss of Memphis...
Cried Hoffa: "The strike is on." At week's end, teamsters' pickets ringed the loading docks at the wholesale houses. But Hoffa's organizers now faced the sweaty business of riding after individual, dodging dogies. Republican Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ignored the prosecutor and asked that a charge of extortion be filed against the teamsters on behalf of a butcher named Bonkovitch. Detroit's editors were acting as though they had a burr in their pants. So was many a citizen. Labor baiting was rampant everywhere...
...York's City Hall, looking natural but a little handsomer than life (see cut). The city had appropriated $2,500 for the portrait by New York Times Artist-Interviewer S. J. Woolf. If the art commission approves the picture, the Little Flower will be the first ex-mayor to hang in the Hall while still alive...
...bounced into a meeting of the Parent Teachers Association and told them a family secret: he was conceived in their home state. "When you hear people say that the mayor of New York was a wild man," he cried, "remember that he was started in the Dakotas and brought up in Arizona...
Villain of the tale: Corky, a dark-visaged spirochete 1/3000th of an inch tall, with a corkscrew body, a nose like a golf tee and spindly legs somewhat less hairy than those of Popeye's Alice, the Goon. As leader of the syphilitic saboteurs, he is Mayor of Chancretown, whose civic anthem is Down by the Old Blood Stream. At the Royal Gorge Café (where the population doubles hourly), his constituents sing...