Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When 18-year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia arrived in Manhattan for a visit, a force of nearly 450 cops and detectives guarded him. He established himself in a 40th-floor suite of the Waldorf-Astoria Towers, held audiences, dined with the Governor, the Mayor, generals. Then, like almost every visitor, he went to the top of the Empire State Building and looked down; he took a little ride in the subway...
Like a mischievous boy, Lawyer Hays enjoys rattling the dry bones left by many an old battle against Prohibition, censorship, race prejudice, Mayor Hague, and for "Communists, IWWs, evolutionists, birth-controllers, union organizers...
When Hays led his civil-liberties parades against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City (1938), he met his match. Hays wanted Hague's police to jail him (to create an issue). Instead, a disobliging cop simply hustled him along the street. Hays "managed to blurt out: 'All right, as long as you push, I'll go.' " But there wasn't much fun in that. Hays came back a few days later to orate against Hague from the top of an automobile. It was no use. Mayor Hague was too smart to play...
...teachers raised Cain. They not only asserted that New York City's schools were so "dangerously" overcrowded that no teachers could be spared-a point wrathfully denied by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-but also stomped angrily, 1,000 strong, to the Board of Education meeting. The Board tried to placate them by electing as their new boss (to succeed the late Superintendent Harold G. Campbell) genial John E. Wade, 64, who had come up from the ranks as a city schoolteacher. Superintendent Wade tried to placate them by batting up a new scheme: instead of firing 125 teachers, retire...
Gratitude. In New Albany, Ind., Kenneth A. Miller, unsuccessful candidate for nomination as mayor, invited 68 guests to a banquet. They were the people who voted...