Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This evening I called the people of this little town together to elect a new mayor. . . . Since I speak German fluently, I opened the meeting, and . . . Herr , owner of the local inn, took over and read a previously made-up list of names for the posts of mayor, assistant mayor, town clerk, treasurer, and town crier. He asked anybody who had any objections to raise his hand...
...Impressed, the Indians took to calling him the Big Father, his house the Big Tepee. But the Big Tepee was only a beginning. To house his 200 employes the Big Father built a town, with hotel, saloon, store and school, incorporated it as Lost Cabin, Wyo. He made himself mayor, carried a deputy sheriff's badge, set up a benign personal government. By the mid-1920s Lost Cabin boasted concrete walks, a golf course, a skating rink, motion pictures, and an aviary stocked with cockatoos and other exotic birds. Many a tourist mistook its gates for those of Yellowstone...
Russian radio and press reports had at first told a story of tranquility and machinelike precision in Russian-occupied Germany-of more food, of mutual tolerance, if not outright friendship, between conqueror and conquered. Then there was a change in tone. The Berlin mayor broadcast a warning to his citizens that "continued" attacks on Red Army troops would bring stiff reprisals: 50 former Nazis would be killed for each incident...
...municipal government is planning to license eight dance halls (heretofore banned) to give Americans some safe recreation. It is also trying to explain to the Chinese people that the Americans are a curious people who just want to talk and go out with women. Said Chungking's Mayor Ho Yao-tsu: "Americans, coming from a freedom-loving country, respect the equality of sexes and regard proper social contacts as natural. There is no reason why social contacts between Chinese girls and their American friends should occasion so much surprise to the public...
Congressman James Michael Curley, now 70, but reluctant as ever to leave the public payroll, announced that he would run for Mayor of Boston, a job he has held three times. Said he: "With due moderation, barring accidents, [I] should live for at least 25 years longer to please my friends and confound rumor mongers." It was no rumor that last year he finished paying off a $42,629 judgment for a rake-off from the last time (1930-1933) he was mayor...