Word: mayors
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Honest Judge Ferguson found Detroit's graft-ridden officialdom as helpful as a pair of handcuffs. County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea insisted that the smell in the police department was only an embittered woman's imagination-until he was convicted of obstructing justice. Pompous, handshaking Mayor Richard W. Reading professed that all was civic virtue-until he was found guilty of graft. And one of the first men Judge Ferguson indicted in the handbook racket was a policeman assigned to "protect...
Numerous petitions and cries for annulment of this ordinance have already gone up, with such men as Professors Schlessinger, Owen, Chaffee, Murdock, and Friedrich among the protesting voices. Mayor Tobin will be side-stepping a definite obligation if he fails to heed this widespread demand for immediate veto...
Remodeled, redecorated, and furnished in part with Metropolitan Museum pieces of Early American vintage, Manhattan's 143-year-old Gracie Mansion was finally ready for occupancy as the City's home for its Mayor. Museum Director Francis Taylor dryly broke the news that Mayor LaGuardia had not set foot in the mansion since Park Commissioner Robert Moses had made the first move to remodel it last February. Said Taylor: "Commissioner Moses is trying to make an early American out of LaGuardia. The Mayor isn't too enthusiastic." The wallpaper in the Mayor's bedroom...
Since tomorrow has been declared by Governor Saltonstall to be Lafayette day, and a manifestation will take place before the Lafayette monument on the mall of Boston Common, the Harvard Unit of France Forever is sending a delegation to the meeting with a banner. Governor Saltonstall may speak; Mayor Tobin will speak...
Married. Betty Compton Walker, ex-musicomedy star, ex-wife of ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City; and Theodore Knappen, consulting engineer; she for the fourth time; in Jersey City...