Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week that Marshal Klementi ("Klim") Voroshilov, 63, had been "relieved of his duties as a member of the State Committee of Defense." Into his job stepped Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 49. Bulganin had risen slowly in the Soviet hierarchy. He had been a textile worker, organizer of city Soviets, mayor of Moscow, a member of the Supreme Soviet, vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Neither a soldier nor a diplomat by training, he was both a general and Soviet representative to the Polish National Council of Liberation...
Eddie Bracken, a would-be Marine hero, has been discharged from service because of chronic hay-fever, and is working at a war plant near his home town. The home-coming at the railroad station--the mayor orating, crowds cheering, the "hero" trying to get away, bands playing, the poor master of ceremonies tearing his hair as everything goes awry, and everyone (but Eddie) having a wonderful time--is a masterly bit of parody...
...Finance Minister went suave, competent 0. K. Yui, 48, banker, ex-mayor of Shanghai and formerly Chungking's Vice Minister of Finance. Minister O. K. Yui's real name is Yü Hung-chün. He adopted the O.K. as a tribute to American ways...
...Here is something startling. I am going to knock on wood . . . because it is still in the experimental stage." New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, on his weekly broadcast, then announced that the city's Public Health Research Institute had succeeded in immunizing laboratory animals against certain kinds of malaria parasites, a feat many experts believed impossible...
...politicians, Boston's James Michael Curley is perhaps the strongest believer in the maxim that God helps those who help themselves. As onetime mayor of Boston he helped himself to $30,000 of city graft. Nevertheless he became governor of Massachusetts, then U.S. Congressman. Up or down, whether riding the crest of popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress...