Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reading about "owlish Fred Vinson," "owlish Boss Crump," "hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia," I am disturbed by an increasing ornithophobia. I now spend too much time peering into the faces of my friends for aviary symptoms. No owls, they. I have only succeeded in upsetting and alienating them. In a world fraught with crises, one prospect looms: one of these days they'll find me addressing a pigeon as "Your Honor...
...Dewey had remained almost clam-silent since his defeat last year, plugging away as governor of New York. This week his hand-picked candidate for mayor of New York (Judge Jonah J. Goldstein) was slated for a decisive beating at the polls, which was not likely to enhance Tom Dewey's political prestige. Governor Dewey also had his own personal hurdle ahead: he must win re-election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination...
...Central Park, Harry Truman stopped off at City Hall. When an usher told him that the "girls who work in the Mayor's office" would like to see him, the President replied: "I don't know why. I'm just the same as everybody else...
...mayor found 206-pound Dick Frankensteen a target hard to miss. He charged that U.A.W.'s man was suppported by Communists and rabble-rousers, would run the city for a little group of labor chieftains. Smear pamphlets appeared on Detroit's streets. Hecklers asked Frankensteen embarrassing questions about housing for Negroes, his plans for non-union city employes...
...local taxes, no courts, no jail. Not in 15 years has anyone been arrested. Said Pubniconian Mrs. Henry Leblanc: "The Mounties from Yarmouth used to come around, but now we hardly ever see them. They just can't find any business down here." West Pubnico has no mayor nor town council, and there are no local laws...