Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portland, Ore.'s breezy Mayor Robert Earl Riley smoothed his pin-striped suit, tossed away a cigar butt, kissed his wife and daughter goodby, lit a new cigar and was off for England. He lands this week, will tour the countryside for eight weeks under the auspices of the Office of War Information, make speeches, answer questions, give Britons a chance to know-and, OWI hopes, to love-a typical U.S. mayor...
...Mayor Riley is probably typical enough. He used to sell tires, found politics more fun, was elected mayor in 1940. He wears sailor straws ("boaters" in Britain), flashy double-breasted suits, a red-rosebud and an American Legion pin in his lapel. He likes clambakes, gag pictures and calling people by their first names. As mayor he is noisy, hard-working and efficient, should be a gaudy contrast to the traditional English mayor who should be efficient, hard-working but definitely not noisy...
...program will begin with an inspection by the officer from the First Naval District accompanied by Lieutenant Walton P. Lewis, Officer in Charge of the school, and Lieutenant (jg) Charles J. Kinolski, Executive Officer. Also present at the public ceremony will be Mayor John H. Corcoran of Cambridge and Superintendent of Parks Stephen H. Mahoney...
...mayor's office we found a few of the living wounded that our soldiers had pulled out of the wreckage. On a wooden bench lay the thin form of a girl about ten years old. Her black hair was streaked with grey powder plaster. One of her legs was completely wrapped in bandages which our company had placed there. In her two hands she clutched a cracker which a soldier had given her. She didn't move, but only stared at the ceiling...
...thick, but which was carelessly machined down to less than 2/32s caused the glider tragedy at St. Louis three weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 9). So announced the War Department last week, after suspending two civilian inspectors and grounding about 100 gliders like the one that killed St. Louis' mayor, the president of the glider-making company and eight others...