Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealth and prestige went up, the Saltonstall political fortunes went down. Great-Grandfather Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) was president of the Massachusetts Senate, member of Congress, first mayor of Salem in the Golden Age of Emerson and Thoreau. Grandfather Leverett Saltonstall, a member of the then-flourishing species of Yankee Democrats, was a good friend of Democrat Grover Cleveland, and thus became Collector of the Port of Boston. The present governor's father, also a Yankee Democrat, couldn't even get elected to the state legislature in his try for office...
...overstuffed gentlemen's clubs on Boston's near-sacred Beacon Hill. But what political power they still possess comes strictly from Yankee trader ingenuity. Thus, by enactment of the conservative state legislature, Boston cannot choose its own police chief-the governor picks him. And bluebloods.cannot elect a mayor in Boston, so they pack behind the Irishman most agreeable to them (like present Mayor Maurice Tobin...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's widow, at the opening of the onetime Chicago mayor's safe-deposit boxes, fainted as highly compressed wads of $20, $50, $100 and $1,000 bills sprang out. His closer chums guessed that Thompson, a son-of-wealth, had accumulated some $3-to-4,000,000 before he became mayor. But his estate was preliminarily evaluated at only $150,000. His safe-deposit box hoard to date...
...head of the Great Lakes in Ontario's twin cities, Port Arthur and Fort William (pop. 55,000), the cry of secession was heard last week. The man who raised it was Fort William's ex-Mayor Chisholm Ross, who objects to being governed from Ontario's capital, smug and self-centered Toronto, 800 miles southeastward...
Secessionist Ross urged fellow twin citizens and Northwestern Ontario to quit Ontario, to join neighboring Manitoba, whose capital, Winnipeg, is only 400 miles away. Acting Mayor J. E. Fryer thought it a good idea, cried: "The greatest frontier in Canada is being governed by people who don't know and don't care." In Port Arthur, another stouthearted Westerner, Mayor Arthur Cox, wanted Manitoba to seize all of Ontario as far east as Sudbury, 700 miles away...