Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simply everybody was in Florida, it seemed. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. escaped easily, returned to Washington with tan and plans for the next War Bond Drive. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague kept an eye on the horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian...
When Bricker stepped down. the fun began. Up marched Mayor Stewart, on schedule. But he was not alone. Into the race also went handsome, 6-ft. State Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert, 49. Herbert, who hails from Ohio's biggest city, Cleveland, is a World War I hero, an aviator who came home wounded with the D.S.C., Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Purple Heart. Senator Burton came out flatly for Tom Herbert, sent his own secretary to Ohio to help run Herbert's campaign for the May 9 primary. Then up popped a third Republican...
...most of Halasz's singers sang well and some of them very well. Its rows packed with enthusiasts including Du-binsky's garment workers and Curran's seamen, the City Center bulged with sold-out houses. But by week's end Mayor LaGuardia's marked-down opera found itself in a situation familiar to its high-priced rival, the Met: it had lost substantially at the box office...
Turned down by War Manpower's production urgency committee on a plea to lift his employment ceiling from 42 to , McKinnon won an appeal to the local War Manpower Commission. His argument, backed by Mayor Harley Knox, labor, religious and other groups: there was "community hardship" in that freedom of the press existed only for Colonel Copley's papers...
Sacramento's Mayor Tom B. Monk, a police escort and howling fans paraded the returning heroes. Schoonover met them with $30,000 in new pledges toward buying the ball park-the Cardinals sliced the price from $60,000 to $50,000-and rumors of a $25,000 bid for concession rights...