Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor, Senator, Representative, national committee member and prospective national convention delegate will go a 68-page booklet entitled America's Road to Lasting Peace. The booklet's frontispiece is a full-page photograph of its author, Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, 56, able three-time mayor of Cleveland, coauthor of the famed Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill Senate Resolution for international organization...
Last week the long-suffering citizen's cup ran over. Mississippi's squat, jug-eared Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 66, became "mayor" of the city. Whereas four of his skittish seniors declined the Chairmanship of the Senate District Committee, The Man accepted with enthusiasm. Hereafter, with the House's hard-working Jennings Randolph, Senator Bilbo will pass on the District's budget, and thus on its civic welfare...
From his home at swank Edgewater Beach Hotel, Candidate Courtney eyed Illinois's rural downstate vote, mapped a campaign that would emphasize his longtime feuding with that old city slicker, Mayor Ed Kelly. There were two minor flaws in this bid for the farm vote. First, Tom Courtney is no bumpkin himself, but the son of a Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced...
...artillery captain in World War I, Sinclair Weeks, like his father, began his political career as an alderman, became mayor of West Newton. He tried for the Senate in 1936, was nosed out for the nomination by Cabot Lodge. He fathered six children, built up a solid fortune as president of Reed & Barton (silverware) and board chairman of United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips). An able businessman in politics, he put the Massachusetts G.O.P. on a sound financial basis, is now treasurer of the G.O.P. National Committee...
...home everyone was on pins & needles. The papers were filled with accounts of the murder by a tri-sexualist of his wife, his boy friend and himself. Eleanor Roosevelt said we must have faith. Mayor LaGuardia urged New Yorkers not to panic. Arthur Krock wrote a story based on a report from a high official who could not be quoted. When the President was finally asked just what was cooking, he said everyone must be patient...