Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago the District Democratic committee decided that enough poll-tax payers (250 required) had signed a petition for the Aug. 4 primary to permit the candidacy of grey-haired, bespectacled Emmett C. Davison, 64, secretary-treasurer of A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, onetime mayor of Alexandria, member of the northern Virginia draft-appeals board. In 1936 Davison was tried, acquitted on a charge of concealing assets in personal bankruptcy proceedings. He ran again for mayor of Alexandria, to vindicate himself, was badly beaten...
Frank Murphy focused his blue eyes in a bright second-balcony stare, and gripped the dog-eared Bible given him by his mother, the Bible on which he has taken all oaths of office, including those of Mayor of Detroit, High Commissioner to the Philippines, Governor of Michigan, U.S. Attorney General, Supreme Court Justice. The Justice was about to take another kind of oath. He had decided to go to the wars, as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. "I have," he murmured dramatically, "a date in Manila...
When reporters asked Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (who had previously vetoed as premature a move to name a drive after General MacArthur) how he felt about changing the name of New York's LaGuardia Airport to MacArthur Field, the Mayor observed spontaneously and artlessly: It's still a good airport. A good field by any name...
With the imminent possibility of a Jap bombing raid hanging over their heads, San Franciscans last week felt a strange, pleasant exhilaration. Oldtimers who saw the 1906 earthquake said that nothing the Japs could do would compare with that. Ever-optimistic Mayor Angelo J. Rossi said: "Why worry? No bombs have fallen...
...people forestall starvation by eating herbs, while Nazi objections to Red Cross shipments of Canadian wheat in Swedish ships are resolved. Thousands of islanders, their skin hanging in folds about their hunger-dulled eyes, have fled to Turkey in small boats. "Trying to halt them," said the mayor of Chios, "is like trying to drive clouds against a strong wind...