Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broom-wielding mood, San Franciscans last week swept out the 13-year regime of bald, bland, bumbling Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. Newly installed under the City Hall dome was a newcomer to politics, but an old face to San Franciscans: genial Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham...
Bald Frank FitzGerald, candidate of organized labor and of the Negro, came up from nowhere to win Detroit's non-partisan primary right under the suntanned nose of Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr. (TIME, Oct. 18). Then the fight grew hot. FitzGerald hammered that Jeffries' campaign was "based on race and class prejudice." Jeffries jabbed at FitzGerald's inexperience in municipal affairs...
Meanwhile, for the next two years, Detroit would have a mayor who had been generally friendly to labor and who, in the first election slugfest of his career, had doubtless learned much about his own shortcomings...
...Elected Mayor of Philadelphia last week by a thumping 64,197 majority: short, swart Bernard ("Barney") Samuel, 63, self-made South Philadelphia ward heeler who rose in the Republican machine from doorbell-ringer to mayor. Rejected: sophisticated, billiard-bald Main Liner William C. Bullitt, 52, native of genteel Rittenhouse Square, pre-Munich New Deal Ambassador to the U.S.S.R..and to France...
...Charles Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...