Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles away, at Independence, Mayor Roger T. Sermon was waiting for them at the summer White House, 219 North Delaware Avenue. The night's poker game was all set up. Cook Vietta Garr had the corn in the kettle and the steaks on the fire...
That night there were enough guests at Mayor Sermon's house for two poker games: Marshal Fred Canfil, an old crony who was courthouse custodian when Harry Truman was a county judge; Eddie Jacobson, Truman's ex-partner in haberdashery; roly-poly, bonhomous Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star, who doesn't play poker but likes to be in on anything; a scattering of judges and newspapermen. Harry Truman played until 1:30, enjoyed himself hugely...
...candidate of the No Deal Party was patrician Newbold Morris, president of the City Council and protege of Mayor LaGuardia (who is a member of the American Labor Party). No Deal Candidate Morris said that he was actually a Willkie Republican. He is also a Yaleman, socialite and good-government career man, who told the voters that his rivals had reached eminence through sordid political deals. Yet his opponents accused him of making a deal with LaGuardia-perhaps for such a sordid purpose as taking votes from Judge Goldstein...
Good Men. Then, paging through the New York Daily News the visitor would read: "All three are good men, honest and capable. No matter which one is elected. New York City will be assured of a good mayor." Knowing his French politics, the visitor would soon understand that the News was principally interested in the fact that Butch LaGuardia, patently the best mayor New York has had in decades -but "too vigorous," would soon be gone...
...E.W.T.). Salary: $25,000 a year. Said Mayor LaGuardia, an old dragonslayer on the radio himself: "Busting gangs on the microphone, Lew, is going to be real easy. . . . Give them the works...