Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had dreamed of marching to glory as a brigadier general. Last week he discovered that he was merely an expendable. When word got around that little Butch was going to North Africa, men uprose on Capitol Hill to thunder: "Political generals!" Forthwith Fiorello was dumped overboard by the President, a casualty of Franklin Roosevelt's new policy of appeasing Congress...
...leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...
...credit to the crustiest admiral. After two and a half years as the colorfully efficient guardian of the vital port of Los Angeles, 46-year-old Commander Frank David Higbee had a new assignment where he would undoubtedly originate more forecastle tales. With him he carried the thanks of Mayor Fletcher Bowron and a scroll from his enlisted men: "Just blow that whistle from Greenland's icy mountain to India's coral strand and there won't be a man jack of us left in California...
...speech will be the first one the President has delivered at the Business School in several years. It is the third in the series now being presented by the HBSA, the previous ones being delivered by Beardsley Ruml on his "pay-as-you-go plan, and Maurice J. Tobin, Mayor of Boston...
Bloodlessly but firmly they ousted ineffective Governor René Weber, released political prisoners, shouted Vive la France. At long last their colony had freed itself of the reactionary, pro-Fascist control of Admiral Georges Robert in Martinique. Excited cables went off from Negro Mayor M. Sophie of Cayenne to Generals de Gaulle and Giraud. The cables were garbled in transmission but they indicated that French Guiana was awaiting their orders...