Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union." He knew it, he said, because he'd been there, and had heard waiters who could hardly talk English. Without bothering to point to the census facts (in 1940 Georgia had 30.1% with four years or less of schooling, New York 12.1%), New York City's Mayor LaGuardia snapped back: "When it comes to illiteracy, the distinguished Governor of Georgia talks as an expert and speaks for his own class...
...Frank Beaurepaire and his lady strolled along, the blacked-out, soldier-crowded streets of Melbourne one evening last week to get a breath of air. They got it, but in gasps. "What we saw," spluttered the wowserish Lord Mayor of Melbourne, "is offensive to many decent-minded citizens." Next night His Lordship & Lady stalked out again, confirmed their dire observations of the uninhibited amorousness of U.S. soldiers and Australian girls...
Australian bluenoses were quick to join the Lord Mayor in a mighty anti-necking crusade, urging everything from a girls' curfew to folk games as "a healthy, happy alternative." More sympathetic U.S. correspondents diagnosed the need as fewer, not more, restrictions. Melbourne takes in its sidewalks after 8 p.m. Only a handful of one-armed eating joints stay open. No drinks are sold. There is no place to spend the evening with a girl in the way of U.S. youth. Sundays are even worse. One vaudeville house and one movie, after soldier protests, were allowed to keep running...
Lieut. Carl F. Zeidler, Milwaukee's "boy mayor" who took a leave of absence to enlist in the Naval Reserve, went on duty in charge of a gun crew aboard an Atlantic merchantman...
Died. Major Thomas Semmes Walmsley, 53, onetime mayor of New Orleans (1930-36), bitter foe of the late Huey Long, whose State machine impoverished New Orleans and stripped Walmsley of most of his powers; of a heart attack; at Randolph Field, Tex. At one time, during the Congressional primaries of 1934, Walmsley's police and Long's State troopers faced each other with loaded guns. Walmsley resigned in the middle of his second term (the year after the "Kingfish's" death), as he had promised to do if the legislature restored home rule to his city...