Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor rushed out of his office, demanded an explanation. He got it. Bitterly, Veteran Ramsey told how he had been ejected from his house, could find no shelter, was therefore moving into the City Hall. The Ramseys squatted until the city promised to find them a new home...
...administer the new policy, to try to get a half million new dwellings built by the end of 1946, the President picked Louisville's lanky, jug-eared ex-Mayor Wilson Wyatt as federal housing boss. It was immediately apparent that Wilson Wyatt was going to have trouble. Real-estate boards and construction men all over the country forthwith set up an outraged howl over the President's request for ceilings...
...lady. I'm a mayor...
...indeed. She was fast-talking Anne Shipley, 46, Reeve (administrator) of the Township of Teck by official title and Mayor of Kirkland Lake by unofficial fact. She was in New York City to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors...
...conference Anne Shipley was the only woman delegate. Americans fell into the habit of introducing her as "the Mayor of Canada." She was much photographed, much interviewed. And there was New York fun for her, too. She had seafood dinners, saw Oklahoma!, shopped for a dinner dress, but found only impossible size...