Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years & years ago Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly and its headline-making State's Attorney Tom Courtney, both Democrats, were pals. But for almost a decade of hate, Courtney has vainly tried to unseat Boss Kelly. Only last October, Courtney was "embarrassing" the Mayor with a lurid (though routine) grand jury investigation of police graft and corruption...
...country-wide November elections changed all that: last week worried Democrats heard with relief that Ed and Tom had made up. As proof, before he left for Florida, conventional winter seat of all good bosses, Mayor Kelly solemnly endorsed one of Courtney's men for Cook County sheriff...
...arrogant Boss Frank Hague to the point of doing something about it. He once served seven months in jail when he got too enthusiastic about collecting signatures of voters (some of them nonexistent) in a primary fight against Hague. Fortnight ago he was convicted again-in Hudson County, where Mayor Hague appoints the judges-this time for altering his voting record. The evidence, as presented in court, was all against him. But New Jersey's Hague-hating Governor Charles Edison cried: "Persecution . . . outrage!" Then Governor Edison set about to prove his charge. To his 24-room Llewellyn Park home...
...succeed New Jersey's late Senator W. Warren Barbour. Said Leon Henderson, practically wrapping the toga about his bulky frame: "I was urged to run in 1942 and always have understood that I would be highly satisfactory to Governor Edison, to labor, and to other groups, including Mayor Hague...
...Mills College's Aurelia Reinhardt, Toledo University's Philip C. Nash). Last week the American Unitarian Association's executive committee nominated a Senator-Harold Hitz Burton, co-author of the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution (TIME, March 22). The 55-year-old Senator and three-time mayor of Cleveland will take office at the Unitarians' annual meeting next...