Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because "Frisco" is a contraction abhorrent to all San Franciscans, roly-poly Mayor Angelo Rossi sped to Hollywood to take issue with 20th Century-Fox, about to release a picture called Hello, Frisco, Hello. Upshot: the mayor got a hundred feet of prelude film in which to express his disapproval, and when the picture opens in San Francisco this week, the title will be Hello, San Francisco, Hello...
...York City's concern over its juvenile delinquency is growing. Its school discipline is poor (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia asked a 16-year-old lad to give the delinquency committee the benefit of his advice. Reason: the lad, solemn Seymour ("Sunshine") Schantz, has been chairman of a group of boys who surveyed their schools and sent the Mayor "the most constructive" report he had received...
B.B.R.'s citizens elect their own mayor, lawmaking council and other officers, together with a judge and prosecuting attorney. If one boy slugs another, the victim may enter a bill of complaint. The slugger is tried, either pleading his own case or being defended by a "lawyer." If guilty, he is sentenced to such chores as window cleaning or is exiled for several days from the B.B.R.'s library, ping-pong tables, sports, etc. "None of us ever gets in trouble with the law, except our own laws," said the B.B.R.'s report...
Outspokenly anti-Vichy, anti-Axis Charles Brunei, intimate friend of Fighting French General Georges Catroux, was appointed head of Peyrouton's important Council of War Economy. A former mayor of Algiers, Brunei escaped arrest during a De Gaullist roundup last December only by virtue of his prestige. His son Jacques was in jail until last month. Out as propaganda secretary went pro-Axis Jean Rigaud, to be replaced by distinguished General Rene Michel Jules Joseph Chambe, a soldier and writer untainted by Axis collaboration...
...They all seemed to be in good health," the Mayor said sweetly, "and I would say that they all seemed aged beyond their years...