Word: mayors
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From Detroit's Mayor Edward J. Jeffries came outraged protest: "I'll match Detroit's patriotism against any other city's in the country. Why. anyone who lives here knows we haven't had a major labor dispute, except the D.S.R. [Department of Street Railways] last year, in three years. The whole story in LIFE is scurrilous. . . . I'd just call it a yellow magazine and let it go at that...
...Pedro Ernesto Baptista. Years ago, when Getulio Vargas began his revolution, Pedro Ernesto, a surgeon, used his own hospital's ambulance to run machine guns to the Vargas contingents massing at Minas Geraes. When Vargas became President, Pedro Ernesto became prefect of the Federal District (Brazilian equivalent of mayor of the District of Columbia). This was a job which gave Pedro Ernesto the chance he had wanted: he labored to improve conditions in Rio's slums; he built schools, free clinics, city hospitals...
Died. John Stonewall Chennault, 80, father of Brigadier General Claire Chennault, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces in China; at Gilbert, La., where he was onetime mayor...
Besides his progress report to Congress, Jim Landis could take some satisfaction last week from showing his OCD predecessor, rolypoly Mayor LaGuardia, longtime Landis critic, that the OCD-approved jet method of quenching fire bombs worked in 15 seconds (TIME, July 27), that the LaGuardia spray method took...
...cylindrical steel and granite statue of Bach. Two nights before the scheduled unveiling, muscular mischief-makers tipped the statue off its wooden perch, stole its 200-lb. blue granite head. Some Carmelites observed that the statue had looked more like Bufano than Bach anyhow. But Mayor Keith Evans was hopping mad. Said he: "It's an act of vandalism that would go over big in Nazi Germany, but I thought we'd outgrown such things here in Carmel...