Word: mayors
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Many a citizen wondered what was happening to Jimmy Byrnes's midnight curfew. Thousands guessed that the 12 o'clock closing order, already sidetracked in New York by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, would soon be completely derailed. But the mayor's attempt to keep Manhattan bars and night clubs open until 1 a.m. had the opposite effect...
...Mayors from all over the country righteously denounced the LaGuardia attitude. Across the country (where the curfew was being observed without much fuss), editorial writers and cartoonists wound up and chucked their bluntest barbs at New York City's mayor...
...clubs went right on shutting up at the stroke of midnight. At week's end administration officials, far from being indignant at the Little Flower, had begun to regard him benignly. The U.S. public, which had considered the curfew an unnecessary imposition, had got so mad at the mayor of sinful New York that they had begun to like...
Plans have been completed for the Harvard Progressive, a monthly publication in magazine format to replace the Student Progressive, Editor Martin P. Mayor '47 announced last night. Like its predecessor, the Progressive will be published by the Harvard Liberal Union and distributed to colleges represented in the Boston Metropolitan Council and to the Connecticut College for Women...
Sizzling over a report submitted to him by a special investigator, New York's Mayor LaGuardia last week capped the sorry tale of the five Brooklyn College basketball players "expelled" for taking bribes to throw a game (TIME, Feb. 12) by revealing that one of them had never even been a member of the college. Discharged from the Army in December 1943, Larry Pearlstein simply borrowed two books from the Brooklyn College library, walked around the campus until his face became familiar, then went out for basketball and made the team. Barked the Mayor: "It indicates a ... negligence...