Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rule 2. He must look good-but not too good-in newsreels and portraits. U.S. voters like their candidates big, broad-shouldered, modestly handsome. Citizens generally refrain from voting for a politician who makes them laugh-unless, like New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the man is obviously an expert caper-cutter. At the same time they suspect any candidate who gestures as if he went to dramatic school, and doubly suspect one handsome enough to inspire a faraway look in their wives' eyes...
President Conant, Governor Saltonstall, and Mayor Tobin of Boston will speak at the dedication in honor of John Harvard, founder of the University. The generous gift of an anonymous donor provides for the new park and playground...
...Mayor's melancholy little flirtation with glory exactly followed the pattern of other recent Presidential appointments gone wrong. First his Army job was announced, unofficially but thoroughly, by Presidential Secretary Steve Early. The protests were then carefully weighed, the chances of Senate confirmation found wanting. Franklin Roosevelt then gaily told a press conference he had no intention whatever of making the Mayor a general...
This still left a loophole for the duck-bottomed little Mayor: he could become a colonel without Senate confirmation. New howls were heard. Forthwith Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that the Mayor was rendering such useful service in New York that...
...Mayor tucked in his disappointment, said merely: "I will carry...