Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what roads had Sparks, Briggs, and the Secretary of the Interior come to this imbroglio? Sparks, once mayor of Akron, had managed Frank E. Gannett's 1939-40 Presidential campaign. Briggs, once a newspaperman, later a political "dopester" for a handful of Minnesota business firms, handled the northern midwest area of the Gannett campaign under Sparks. When Gannett lost, Briggs changed camps. He became a pal of the Democrats. Ickes, asked by reporters last week if the story was true that he had met Briggs through Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly, replied...
...University of California, he resigned when invited to lecture on higher mathematics and logic at Manhattan's City College in 1940. Presently he saw his invitation nullified: Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning charged that Russell, unorthodox on sex questions (Marriage and Morals), was morally unfit to teach; Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia pulled Russell's professorial chair out from under him by unbudgeting his salary...
Death Revealed. Stirling Fessenden, 68, Maine-born, Lord Mayor of Shanghai (1923-39); in September; in Shanghai...
Taking office as his city's 29th mayor, San Francisco's shipping tycoon (American Hawaiian-Steamship Co.) and longtime leading citizen Roger Dearborn Lapham, 60, made a promise: "I shall not run for mayor again. I am glad of that pledge because it gives me an inner freedom of mind which I could not otherwise have...
...Never Scooped. White-thatched Clem Lane has been doing Oxie pieces for about six years. Oxie came into being when Mayor Edward J. Kelly (ever since a target of Oxie's meat ax) was trying to legalize Chicago's large population of bookmakers. The Daily News editorialized against it, and Lane, who knew his way around the handbooks, invented Oxie as a wiseacring mouthpiece...