Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story in TIME (Feb. 5) of the boy brutally tortured and killed in Seattle's King County Jail is one that should rouse to action every juvenile officer, jail warden, mayor, policeman and governor in the U.S.! It comes as a climax to the stories already being spread by investigators all over the country as to local jail conditions and the pitiful care being given juvenile delinquents...
Civic Pride. Peoria's 83-year-old Mayor Ed Woodruff was locally noted for taking pride in the town's "liberal" outlook. When a reform candidate-Carl O. Triebel, owner of the Ideal Troy Laundry-filed against him this year for the Republican nomination, old Ed Woodruff did not change his attitude: "Peoria likes to live and doesn't want to be told what to do and what not to do all the time...
After the returns were in, the rheumy-eyed old Mayor sat at home, cigar ashes spilling on his vest, and muttered defiance. "The crusaders got me," he mumbled, "but the people will be asking me to run again. Why do they always talk about the goddam girls? I didn't put stools in the bars for them...
...Mayor, His Testimony. Witness Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who enthusiastically fell in with the Committee's desire to have a look at Goldberg, had frothed on the stand at the mention of Goldberg and Surplus Liquidators, Inc. Reading from a report, the Mayor declared that, as an auctioneer, Goldberg was "unethical, tyrannical and unfair . . . and to say the least stupid and arrogant." He was also, grimaced The Hat, a distributor of toilet seats. To punctuate his testimony, Witness LaGuardia had shrilly mimicked an auctioneer's babble, yelling an occasional, gleeful "sold!" But Auctioneer Goldberg, who heard all this...
...City Council did not dare antagonize Denver doctors by forcing the city hospital to relax this rule. Last week Councilman Mapel, Mayor Ben Stapleton and Hospital Superintendent Carl P. Schwalb worked out a suggested compromise, which was no more than a reaffirmation of widespread hospital custom: in emergencies, the hospital would admit patients of nonstaff doctors, but staff doctors must care for them in the hospital...