Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations of eastern Europe, free and secret elections were still promised. Angered and fearful, a group of Bulgarian peasants told an American correspondent how an armed 23-year-old Communist mayor had lumped their long-held acreages and plowed the boundaries under...
...greet Mackenzie King were Britain's black-hatted, dapper Deputy Under Secretary for the Dominions Sir John Stephenson, and tall Frederic Hudd, Canada's Acting High Commissioner in Britain. Behind them came Southampton civic dignitaries, led by the wife of the city's ailing Lord Mayor, Job Charles Dyas. Primly the Lady Mayoress recited a prepared speech of thanks for clothing that Canada had sent to the city during the blitz...
...business slowed down to a walk, hen-shaped, huffy-puffy Mayor LaGuardia appealed to the strikers to go back to their jobs. Nothing happened. Then Governor Tom Dewey spoke up. Said he, with the first official firmness shown anywhere in the strike-racked U.S.: "I call upon your organizations to resume operation of the struck buildings and to submit your differences to an impartial arbitrator." Tom Dewey demanded an immediate answer...
...operatic roles (Tonio in 7 Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, Rigoletto, Germont in Traviata, the Ethiopian King in Aïda and Valentin in Faust). Last week his chance came-from New York's municipal, low-priced opera company, presided over by a self-conscious champion of race equality. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. Todd Duncan made his debut in I Pagliacci, followed it two nights later with Carmen. Sympathetic audiences cheered him long. Critics were almost as loud in praise of his singing, hoped his acting would improve. Musically, LaGuardia's opera company is a lot farther away from...
...strike was taken up by 800 more. At Chicago's Morgan Park High, a Methodist preacher broke in on a strike rally at a vacant lot, told the students they would be striking against the U.S. Constitution. He talked most of them out of it. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly termed the strikes "prank" stuff. A handful of Chicago civic groups hurriedly put on a city-wide "Youth Rally," starring black & white entertainers (Danny Kaye, "Bojangles" Robinson), to get kids back to class...