Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeing no chance for advancement, Vetterli left the FBI in 1938. Sight unseen, Salt Lake City's Mayor Ab Jenkins appointed him police chief in 1940. A strict disciplinarian and stickler for rules, Vetterli is unpopular with his policemen, who, like many Western police forces, are fairly casual about discipline...
Last week fellow trainees elected Leno Camp Mayor by a large majority. No politico, Leno had a simple platform: "To develop a greater war-conscious spirit in the camp." His post-election statement: "I am deeply impressed at this vote of confidence. Democracy really can work...
...friend of William Randolph Hearst, whom he visits at San Simeon and with whom he sometimes exchanges public telegrams on public questions on the front pages of Hearst newspapers. Hearst likes him so well that his papers have started several abortive booms: "Griffin-for-Mayor," "Griffin-for-Senator," and report his comings & goings as if he were somebody. Most of Griffin's trips have been to Eire, where he made himself popular by clamoring for Irish independence. When he launched the Enquirer in 1926 he became one of the most violent Anglophobes and isolationists in the U.S. His paper...
...York City Hall, she was greeted officially by sturdy, splenetic Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. She sat in a leather chair while the Mayor introduced her to city officials, then rose majestically, took a sheet of paper out of her handbag and, with hardly an accent, read her reply. As the first Dutch ruler ever to visit the New World, she was sorrowful that she had come "under the shadow...
...told to buy war bonds. Who was the master of ceremonies? Jimmy Walker. I can remember twelve years ago when the whole nation breathed a sigh of relief when the then Governor Roosevelt of New York State had the courage to put on the pressure and oust Walker as mayor. And now Walker is telling me and several thousand others to buy war bonds. Out of 7,000,000 people they have to pick...