Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amendments. Ohio-born and Iowa-reared, Jim Reed came to the Senate after four turbulent years as Kansas City's reform mayor. He fought Wilson early & late. In 1913, a Democrat-loaded House rubber-stamped Wilson's Federal Reserve Bill through in 13 hours. Senate Democrats were all set to do the same. Reed balked. Wilson's anger boiled over. But by the time the bill became law, it had 562 amendments, mostly added by Reed; and Reed had a letter from a chastened Wilson admitting that the law had been strengthened...
...ramp seized near Rouen was simply a pair of rails 200 feet long and mounted 12 feet apart on ties. The mayor of Rouen said that a high proportion of the robombs launched in that area had been wasted, that three out of four flopped in France without even reaching the Channel. No less than 26, he said, had exploded on one 40-acre French farm. Many firing crews were said to have been injured or killed at the launching installations. At Arras, Frenchmen said they had been offered 1,000 francs a day to help with the dangerous firing...
Hence my complaint about the following misleading statements (TIME, Aug. 7) about the current squabble between New York nightclubs and Mayor LaGuardia's bookkeepers: "At the Stork, the check is usually placed face down on the table, with the total written on the back. Only an outlander who should not be at the Stork Club at all would turn the check over and tot up the bill. If he did, the city contends, he would find that the total had been padded...
...Mayor Claude A. Lord of Pottsville, Pa. (pop. 24,530) boasted of the "first comprehensive plan for Victory Day." Sample: "The signal is the ringing of all church bells and the tying down of whistles and sirens for a continuous signal.. . . Plans have been made by the Mayor to start a big parade. . . . This will act as an outlet for people's enthusiasm...
Marshal Tito sent his three-year-old, battle-worn pistol to New York City's battling Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia-acknowledging the Mayor's message of admiration for the Partisans. The Mayor, a World War I veteran who did not succeed last year in getting a brigadier generalship, expressed his belligerent thanks: "Now that Tito has given me the gun, I hope my own government will give me the opportunity to use it ... before it is too late...