Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Large cities felt the meat shortage as never before. New York City seemed to have the largest problem, and as usual made the loudest noise. Hundreds of its butcher shops closed. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers still ate well-in restaurants. But many more did not. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia screamed at Washington: "You can't feed headlines to children!" He proposed that restaurant eaters be made to give up red ration points for meat served to them. Said the OPA of the Mayor's scheme: "Too late...
...detail which posed for the famed flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima - Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne County, Wyo. held "pie socials." Funnyman S. J. Perelman and Author John Roy (Under Cover) Carlson exhorted the people of Pittsburgh. Troops simulated airborne attacks on Chicago. In The Bronx, bond-buyers were allowed to ring...
Last week the News wore its favorite, city-kid's air. Tired of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's civic scoldings, the News plunged into the tawdry past, and came up with a Manhattan mayoralty candidate it could really be enthusiastic about: Jimmy Walker...
Said a News editorial: "Jimmy was Mayor 1926-1932; and those were years when New York was a pleasant place to live in. It was a wide-open town, in defiance of the prohibitionists. There may have been some graft changing hands- 'honest graft,' as it was called-but not many people cared. What did matter . . . was that it was fun to be in New York in Jimmy Walker's time. For the last few years, it has been no more fun to be in New York than anywhere else. The war has been partly to blame...
...thing the News forgot to tell its readers: how Jimmy Walker felt about it. That skinny, glib, ingratiating Irishman, who at 63 still looks like an aging musi-comedy juvenile, has rung up many a useful dollar since he left the mayor's office in a hurry in 1932, just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph...