Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then matters suddenly changed. In recent weeks Giraud has ousted some of the more distasteful Vichy administrators. He sent eagle-beaked Yves Chatel, Governor General of Algeria, off to sympathetic Spain. He placed the anti-Vichy René Chambe in charge of propaganda. Charles Brunei, anti-Vichy former mayor of Algiers, was brought into the Council of War Economy. Reactionary General Jean Bergeret, Giraud's deputy civil commander, and Fascist-minded Jean Rigaud, political secretary of the North African war council, resigned. Previously Giraud had said: "I think after I announce my plans they will kick themselves...
...party will be greeted and entertained by Gov. Saltonstall, Mayor Tobin, Harvard officials and other officials...
Case History. In Brooklyn, N.Y., same day he presented the mayor with a plan to eliminate subway rushes, Herbert L. Carpenter was trampled in a subway rush, taken to the hospital...
...remember the stature it lost to the East and West Coast when the Panama Canal opened. This week Chicago's Association of Commerce will bring forth a map-sprinkled plan to make Chicago as strategic to air transport as it is to the railroads. Chicago's genial Mayor Ed Kelly is preparing chest-thumping speeches to that effect; United Air Lines President William Patterson has already mounted the stump. But Chicago's plans are already beyond speechmaking; surveys have been made of 72 possible airport sites in the area, twelve of them suitable for huge bases...
...Louis is most air-minded of all Midwestern cities. With a local election in the offing, candidates are hedgehopping over each other to promote St. Louis as the "No. i air capital of the nation." Last week Mayor William Dee Becker announced that famed Lambert Field is being expanded to twice its present size, that a second huge air terminal is now on the drawing boards. St. Louis' aviation boom was touched off late last year when the U.S. economic mission to Brazil (TIME, Dec. 7) recommended it as the terminal for a straight-line air route from...