Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outset the Tories were confident. With Garfield Case, three-term Mayor of Owen Sound (pop. 14,000) in the field against McNaughton, they felt they could pick up enough dissident Liberal votes to win. But last week the situation abruptly changed. The Socialist CCFers picked a candidate of their own: Manitoba-born Albert Earl Godfrey...
Rorello LaGuardia, Manhattan's hustling, bustling little Mayor, who in eleven years of office has proved a tar baby for nicknames ("Butch," "The Hat," "The Little Flower"), was tagged anew at the opening of an "Eat More Fish" campaign: "The Little Flounder...
James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' rough-&-ruddy Irish politico, who has been mayor of staunchly Catholic Boston off & on since 1914, and is again a candidate for the job this year, received his first campaign contribution from two soldiers in the Philippines: 20 pesos, which turned out to be counterfeit...
...socked at Mayor Ed Kelly, Governor Dwight Green, lawyers and bankers and traction interests, politicians, the plain citizenry ("suckers . . ."). General theme: Chicago is a shoddy place to live, because of cupidity, stupidity, boondoggling and apathy. All this was not so much an expose as a loud public belch, well illustrated. In stories signed by "William Tell," the public was invited to join in with its own complaints. Said the Herald-American: "Tell William . . . and let William Tell...
...fight is not entirely over. Mayor Butler thinks that the city can save money by acquiring the company by condemnation, instead of from the Myers' group. Omaha will not vote on this until spring. But in any case Guy Myers has finished his work in Nebraska. There is nothing more to sell...