Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been found near the murder scene, and an abandoned car. An ex-convict had been spotted entering the same car just before the murder; he was in custody and being questioned. More than 100 detectives were on the case, for among the slain man's friends was Mayor LaGuardia...
Month ago Illinois's kinky-haired Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune dredged up out of oblivion a ready-made Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago: jovial, burly Roger Faherty (TIME, Jan. 4). His hour was brief: last week Roger Faherty was back in oblivion again...
Taxes were the reason offered by Radioman Shepard for selling. His father, John Shepard Jr., retired Boston merchant, owner of Providence's Shepard Stores, onetime (1930-35) mayor of Palm Beach, and the network's chief stockholder, is 86 and someday there will be estate taxes to pay. Rubberman O'Neil gave John Shepard III a five-year contract to continue as network operations head and board chairman...
...first play went over well enough. But the second, in which this writer was to make his debut in the role of Mayor LaGuardia, didn't quite get by the WRUL, censors: and the records show that the Radio Workshop, as such, never again performed on the Boston station...
...Mexican hills rode an armed band. It descended on the sleepy town of Miguel Auza last week and scattered a troop of young Mexican conscripts drilling in the square. The bandits occupied the town for several hours until Government troops arrived. The Mayor, his son and several others were killed; many were wounded. During the same afternoon bands attacked the towns of Rio Grande and Nieves in the State of Zacatecas. There was no looting, but many civilians were killed and more were wounded...