Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City, No. 1 U.S. firechaser, de"Strange as it may seem, I don't like to go to fires. I just hate it, but it's my duty to go out; the Charter says so." The City Charter says the Mayor must the "keep several himself informed the of doings of the sereral agencies ofthe city...
...Mayor Raul García Menocal y Seva of Havana was welcomed to Washington, but nobody could find the customary key-to-the-city to give to him. Discovery: the stock of keys (brass) had been exhausted, and priorities had delayed replacements...
...National Blood Bank. Up to a month ago, authorities had refused this blood, but public protest changed the policy until today the Navy accepts such donations. The liberals demand free use of this blood for Red Cross and civilian use. Petitions to this effect have been sent to Mayor La Guardia and other active in civilian defense...
Raymond Stephen McKeough, now Congressman from Cook County, was picked by Chicago's famed Kelly-Nash machine as the candidate to oppose Brooks, when Mayor Ed Kelly failed to get an endorsement from President Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 9). Old (78), horse-loving Pat Nash, who got rich tearing up Chicago's streets and inserting sewers therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely...
Carl F. Zeidler, tousle-haired, 34-year-old singing "boy mayor" of Milwaukee, "the Personality Kid" who beat Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's mayor for 24 years, in 1940, enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, announced that he would resign his $12,300-a-year office as soon as he was called to active duty. "What does my life matter when the life of my country is at stake?" cried he. A Naval official said Zeidler would be made a lieutenant, junior grade, or full lieutenant, probably assigned to recruiting or promotion...