Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater front, Mayor LaGuardia's police hauled off to court, on indecency charges, the management of a dismal burlesque-revue called Wine, Women & Song. Said the Mayor: "The title is very misleading. The public thought it was Viennese music." The public, its misapprehensions cleared up, promptly took a new interest in Wine, Women & Song. The managers,who had expected to fold in a week for lack of customers, gleefully hauled down the closing notice. If the court case dragged on long enough, the show might...
...sunshine warmed the Mayor's crusade last week. When he heard that the Parent-Teacher Association of Public Schoo! 99 was conducting a raffle for a $25 war bond, he quickly stopped it. The Parent-Teacher Association was loth to move to New Jersey or get a court order, so his ruling stuck...
...week's end the Mayor again felt the stings of ingratitude. With the best intentions in the world, he posed for a news picture showing him about to plunge a knife into a rubber dragon which Macy's department store once used for Thanksgiving Day parades and is now donating to the scrap pile. Some Manhattan ingrates suggested that this was not the first rubber dragon their Mayor had slain...
...smashing defeat his machine took in the election (TIME, Nov. 16), New Jersey's Democratic Boss Frank Hague had a new headache last week. His own Jersey City, where he has been Mayor for 25 years, was going broke so fast that there was no use pretending any longer...
Then, in a peroration calculated to bring tears to the eyes of a brass monkey, the Mayor pointed to his 30 years of serving Jersey City "faithfully and honorably," pleaded with his citizens "to continue the confidence in me and my associates," promised that fate would vindicate his administration "because our cause is just and our courts are honest...