Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the confusion strode troubled Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, urging the crowds to go home, trying to justify the hope of decent Americans that the race problem need not be thrashed out in wartime violence. Said he, irascible but patient, with his own peculiar dignity...
...plane over St. Louis' Municipal Airport. A wing cracked, shredded into splinters. The glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy was watched by 4,000, including wives...
Lord Halifax, Britain's towering Ambassador to the U.S., fixed things so that when the smallish mayor of Nelson, B.C., delivered his welcoming oration at the depot they would be approximately face to face. The mayor stood on the train's rear platform, Halifax on the ground. "Ladies and gentlemen," began the mayor, as the train moved down the track...
Comebacks. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express immediately took up the challenge and began knocking down Cummings' story with testimonial letters from the places involved. Wrote Mayor Godsell of Worcester: "The behavior of the American troops is excellent. ... It is disgrace ful that such a statement should be made. . . . Misconduct in Worcester is negligible." Mayor Farrow, of Peterborough: "I am infuriated by this scurrilous statement. . . . The police have practically no trouble...
...President brought the generalizations down to the give-&-take of diplomacy. When a victorious army invades a country, he explained, two essentials come first: ending all armed opposition and avoiding anarchy. To gain these essentials in Italy, he was ready to talk peace with the King, Badoglio, the mayor of a town -with anyone who was not a definite member of the Fascist Party. Self-determination of government by the Italian people would come later. To show the Italians what kind of occupiers we are, to prevent Sicily from slipping into hunger and disease, Mr. Roosevelt added, food, medical supplies...