Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadcaster Fiorello LaGuardia, who dearly loves a scoop, had a juicy one last week for listeners to his Italian language radio chat beamed to Italy. "I had a most interesting talk a few days ago concerning the war in Africa," purred the Mayor. Abruptly then he named the men with whom he said he had spoken-eight Italian generals and one air marshal. Properly dramatic, he saved the best name for last, throwing it in as an afterthought: hot-tempered General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, photogenic Black Shirt commander captured by the British in Libya two years ago this month...
Where he had met them the Mayor did not say, but he has not been...
...four years Thurman Wesley Arnold (ex-Yale law professor, former mayor of Laramie, Wyo.) had ridden herd on trusts like a paunchy cowboy. He had corralled more monopolies, obtained more indictments of corporations and labor unions than any other man in history. Last week his trust-busting rodeo was over. To the Senate the President sent his nomination to be an associate justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
...celebration of its first anniversary, Derry put up a bronze plate cast in its own shop, heard speeches by white-haired Mayor Simmons of Londonderry (complete with ceremonial chain) and Ulster M.P. William Lowry. But a lot of the Navy's Derrymen missed the celebration: they were working...
...Herald-American's "War Romance Clinic" was born. Editor Malloy launched it amid typical Hearst ballyhoo; the wife of Chicago's Mayor Edward Kelly was persuaded to say for publication, "What a boon it will be . . ."; Herald-American delivery trucks had their sides plastered with promotion ads that screamed, "Soldier, You're Breaking My Heart...