Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university education so that he could be a Beamter some day too. With the help of scholarships and spare-time work, he studied law and economics, settled down to practice law in Cologne. At 30 he started up the ladder of bureaucracy, four years later he was deputy mayor...
...driver fell asleep at the wheel and smashed into a streetcar. Adenauer's face was badly injured, still bears scars. While he was still in the hospital, Cologne's mayor died, and a delegation of the city council dropped in to inform Adenauer of the news. "They sent a delegation," Adenauer grins, "because they had heard of my severe head injuries. They wanted to make sure I was still normal." Satisfied that he was, the city council elected him mayor...
...almost two decades as mayor, Adenauer proved a vigorous, progressive, highly popular administrator. He helped found Cologne's university, promoted the revival of an annual trade fair, set up a model settlement for workers. He had a natural flair for politics. "When I sat in the city hall in Cologne," Adenauer once said, "I used to think to myself: the Roman Empire went down, Bismarck's Prussian dream collapsed and now Kaiser Wilhelm's Reich has been destroyed. But this old city of Cologne lives on. It has outlasted them all, and it is worth...
During the war years, Adenauer retired to a spacious white house near Cologne, and worked in his garden. In 1945 the U.S. Army reinstalled him once again as mayor of his beloved Cologne...
...York City gave Connie a ticker-tape ride up Broadway. At City Hall, Mayor William O'Dwyer handed him a certificate for "distinguished and exceptional public service." The guest of honor made a little speech thanking folks for turning out "to see the old man of baseball." Said Connie, whose A's are in fourth place but who opens spring training every season by assuring his players they can win the pennant: "I fully intend to manage the Athletics next year...