Word: mayors
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...year Republican voting trend continued. After 16 years as Mayor of Baltimore, ruddy, cherubic Howard Wilkinson Jackson, 65, last week found himself out of a job. Democrat Jackson, who had kept a profitable insurance business on the side, was soundly trounced (20,000 votes) by Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder...
...Vote for Fiorello Sirs: It would have been surprising indeed if Mayor LaGuardia had been appointed to the job for which he was mentioned (TIME, April...
Monday's dinner, held at the Society of Fellows in Eliot House, was an out-growth of Mayor John H. Corcoran's successful effort to obtain Naval authorization for naming a new cruiser after the university city. President Conant and Jerome D. Greene, Secretary to the Corporation, were among those who cooperated...
...dinner were Mayor Corcoran, William M. Hogan Jr., vice chairman of the city council; City Manager John B. Atkinson, and Councilmen Francis L. Sennott, Hyman Pill, Michael A. Sullivan, Marcus Morton Jr., Thomas M. McNamara, Sgt. Edward A. Crane and ex-Mayor John D. Lynch. President Conant, Treasurer William M. Claflin Jr., and the following members of the Harvard Corporation were present: Henry L. Shattuck, Dr. Roger I. Lee, Grenville Clark, and Charles A. Coolidge...
Completing the transfer of the property to Mayor Tobin of Boston, President Conant expressed the common feeling of indebtedness to the unknown donor, and noted the importance of the simple cermony, seemingly unrelated to the war effort, but which was for him "symbolic of the spirit which now burns throughout this nation...