Word: mayors
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Hobby Horses. In Portland, Ore., Mayor Earl Riley got a letter from a woman in Canton, Ohio: "I have a hobby collecting horses and try to get one from each state as a souvenir. . . . Would you please oblige and send me one, any kind, as I have all kinds. Send C.O.D." Witness. In Bayonne, N.J., the late Dr. John Jay Hunt named "God Almighty" as witness to his will, bequeathed his patients' unpaid bills to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross, requested that his ashes be cast into the sea. The will was declared invalid because the signature...
...days later MARCH OF TIME, which had obtained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's verbal permission to film the gates of one of New York City's Jewish cemeteries for the same film, got a telephone call from the police captain of the cemetery precinct. He said no pictures could be taken. M.O.T. took the pictures anyway, and police took the names of the camera crew...
...Republican confusion came at a moment of surpassing Democratic unity behind the best vote getter they have seen in years: Cleveland's Mayor Frank John Lausche (rhymes with How Shay), 48, the only major Democrat above the Mason-Dixon line to win in the nationwide Republican sweep last fall (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943). Lausche is liked both by labor and by old-line conservatives. Exuberant Democrats even believe he may carry Ohio for Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, if Republicans are off fighting among themselves...
...eminent sockeroos as You Are My Sunshine, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, and It Makes No Difference Now. The losers were egg-bald 67-year-old Lewis L. Morgan, longtime public chairwarmer in the state's pre-reform days, and other "old regulars" of New Orleans Mayor Robert S. Maestri's machine. Tenor Davis, supported by Governor Sam Houston (''Sweet-Smellin' Sam") Jones, gave the Longsters even a worse walloping than Jones had given them in 1940-a 37,000 vote majority...
Sharpest blow was struck by Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron's Committee on Home Front Unity (polite name for the Los Angeles Race Committee). It recommended that the Hays Office ban Uncle Tom on the grounds that the picture would cause "racial tension...