Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference to the Mayor Hague controversy and under the heading of "Hold That Line!" (TIME, July 19), you quote me as saying: "Hague is a bum and always was a bum, and I don't think you can whitewash him just because he says he supports...
Will There Be Expediency? Many an Italian wanted more than white bread from the liberators. In a letter to AMGOT an unnamed citizen of Ferla denounced the mayor, who was cooperating with the Allies yet continuing to run the town in the "corrupt Fascist tradition." The writer touched on AMGOT's biggest and toughest problem: the replacement of Fascists in a land where practically every officeholder owed allegiance to the Party...
...year. His chief deputy was U.S. Brigadier General Frank J. McSherry, an engineer who has been in the Army since 1917 and has been an executive in various war agencies since 1938. Also in Sicily was New York's ex-Governor, Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti. A notable absentee: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
...pated William Christian Bullitt last week tossed his top hat in the political ring. The candidacy: Democratic, for Mayor of Philadelphia, at the election this...
This was hot news to Philadelphians, who have not had a gaudy mayor for four years, not since the late Samuel Davis Wilson, who carried around a little rostrum which he would solemnly place on the speaker's table. When he flicked a switch, neon letters flared: "S. Davis Wilson, Mayor...