Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the New Deal, in spite of the all-powerful political boss who is their mayor, Chicago's traction system will still be visited on the children of Chicagoans, even to the second and third generations. That was the news that depressed Chicagoans last week...
...When Mayor Ed Kelly wangled an $18,000,000 PWA appropriation in 1938 to help build a subway, one of the strings attached was the unification of all city transportation facilities. His City Council passed a unification plan, voters adopted it 10-to-1 in a referendum. All bondholders approved the plan; so did the Federal Court which handles the receivership proceedings...
Chicago's newspapers (except the Tribune) pointed out that the State Commission was appointed by Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, who might conceivably hate to see Democrat Ed Kelly get credit for untangling the transit tangle. Mayor Kelly shouted: "An outrage. . . ." But the Commission's decision was final...
Died. Sarah Grand, 88, pioneer British suffragette, six times Mayor of Bath, popular novelist (The Heavenly Twins); in Bath, England...
...toughest spots in U.S. education is the city of Hamtramck,* Mich. Hamtramck is a nest of factories, beer parlors and brothels entirely surrounded by Detroit. Hamtramckers were prominent among 400-odd Wayne County public servants indicted in recent years for assorted civic crimes. In two decades four Hamtramck mayors, one local State Senator and pecks of small political potatoes have gone to prison on liquor, vice and graft counts. When one mayor left jail, his constituents re-elected him, promoted him to be an isolationist Congressman...