Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was the homecoming last week for James Michael Curley, 71, who is both a Congressman ($10,000 a year) and Mayor of Boston ($20,000). He was returning from Washington, where a Federal Court jury had found him guilty of using the mails to defraud. The welcoming committee, 1,000 strong, included his old friend Maxwell Grossman, who is also Boston's Commissioner of Penal Institutions...
...Service Act, had once been forced to pay back $42,629 he had taken as graft from the city which loves to elect him. Now he faced a possible prison sentence. But there was nothing in the law-or Boston's political morals-to prevent his continuing as Mayor. If necessary, the "greatest figure" could run the city from jail...
...Lord Mayor brought two ripe yellow bananas back with him to the town hall, and a few lucky kids did some dockside sampling. Consensus: "Better than pears." One twelve-year-old's joyful munching was recorded on the spot...
...Luterio Alcaraz had been no Sinarquista, only a devout Catholic. With his wife he had gone to the square to shout a protest. The pro-Catholic Civic Union was demonstrating against what it considered the fraudulent election of the Government's official P.R.M. (Mexican Revolutionary Party) candidate for mayor. Soldiers, on hand to guarantee the P.R.M. mayor's tenancy in office, opened fire. Luterio fell: So did the young daughter of Pedro Ramirez (see cut) and 25 others...
...happy Mr. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York's cocky little ex-mayor, crowed a sharp warning to his advertising sponsor, Liberty magazine, just before he began his Sunday-night ABC network commentary this week: "If they announce that the sponsor is not responsible for their commentator's sentiments, I'll announce that the sponsor's product is not necessarily endorsed by the commentator...