Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last April, with much hoopla, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly gave the voters a preliminary peek at the new Chicago subway. Last week, six months later, the first "official" train went through. The longest-promised (50 years), costliest ($6,938,000 per mile), shortest (4.9 miles) subway in the world was now open for business...
Detroit's youthful, grinny Mayor Edward Jeffries got through the nonpartisan primaries last week. But-as almost no one expected-he finished a poor second to up-&-coming John Francis James Fitz-Gerald. Reasons for the upset: 1) C.I.O. members voting for FitzGerald; 2) Negroes voting against Jeffries...
...previous campaigns, Mayor Jeffries won by a 2-to-1 majority, with the support of the C.I.O. as well as the white-collar and uppercrust vote. But this time the restive, powerful United Auto Workers (C.I.O.) wanted a man of their own. They picked FitzGerald, a balding Irish attorney who showed surprising strength in 1940 as a Democratic opponent to veteran Senator Arthur Vandenberg. U.A.W. gathered a $30,000 war chest, lavished most of it on last week's primaries, and got out the biggest local labor vote since...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City, driving along the water front to work, spied a crowd, characteristically jumped out and shouldered his way through to see what was up, found a couple of sailors slugging each other, promptly broke it up, went on to his office...
Nash's chief municipal study was in the art of low bidding for Chicago's fat sewer contracts. When shrewd Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak was killed in 1933 by a Miami assassin's bullet (intended for F.D.R.), Nash eased into the saddle, made a mayor of onetime Sewer Engineer Edward Joseph Kelly, soon began a series of colorful, losing battles for statewide power with the late Governor Henry Horner. The Nashist approach: "I like to be called a boss, even...