Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view last week on the horrors of capture by the Japs. Inexplicably, Duke University published a rather jolly piece of reading on approximately the same subject. To the quiet North Carolina campus had come a sunny, mellow letter from James Halsema, Class of '40, son of the ex-Mayor of Baguio in the Philippines and now a prisoner of the Japs at Camp Holmes in the Baguio area. Duke's publicity office released to the newspapers the entire text of the letter (some 700 words), to run, presumably, in conjunction with the fiend-ridden experiences of Lieut. Colonel...
Died. Will B. Johnstone, 62, political cartoonist, creator of the barrel-dressed, chinless, widely syndicated "Little Taxpayer"; after long illness; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Old World-man Johnstone was taken over by the World-Telegram in 1931, first sent his "taxpayer" into the lists as an auxiliary in Mayor LaGuardia's successful 1933 campaign against Tammany...
...which recently I got a letter from Sears that said, 'Kindly refer to this matter immediately or your salary will be garnisheed.' Well I had to get $14 by hook or crook to pay off that debt. Now I want to give you some of the Mayor's own figures, that out of 168,000 city employes in New York, 90,000 are in hock up to their ears...
...rest of the dramatis personae of the capital's melodorous mystery thriller, the jury decided, had nothing to do with the case, excepting C. Nelson Sparks, the ex-Mayor of Akron. The role assigned to him was that of the victim: he-had innocently published the phony letter in his garbled assault on One Man-Wendell Willkie...
Pietro di Donate, handsome 32-year-old bricklayer-turned-novelist (Christ in Concrete), just married in Manhattan by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, told reporters he was planning a Hoboken honeymoon. When asked what his professional plans were, Pietro a longtime breadwinner for seven orphaned brothers & sisters and more recently a conscientious objector, replied: "I don't know. I'm too sophisticated to go back to bricklaying and I'm too confused to return to writing...