Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conferred with people ranging from the Uruguayan and Australian envoys to Governor Homer M. Adkins of Arkansas and Mayor Carl F. Zeidler of Milwaukee...
When death cut short the boisterous career of Huey Long, Maestri (who backed him long before he became the Kingfish) was his Commissioner of Conservation. New Orleans, the last rampart which held out against Huey's domination, gave up a few months later. Big-beaked Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley (known to Huey as old Turkey Head) resigned, and burly Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with flesh) certified Candidate Bob Maestri to the job. Normally, Maestri would have come up for reelection in 1938. But Leche talked the Louisiana Legislature into giving Maestri a six-year term...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia found time enough between jobs to dash to a waterfront fire in zero weather, got both cheeks frostbitten, departed smeared with salve...
...Francisco, citizens got a few sardonic laughs from some gagster's "Plan of Air-Raid Protection and Civilian Defense." The "plan," an ironic salute to bumbling Mayor Angelo Rossi, was "deduced from analysis of activity and progress to date." Excerpts...
Civilian Defense units were still largely unorganized. Last fortnight, when unidentified planes were reported 80 miles off the Coast, the city had its seventh blackout. Seven sirens, installed after long delay, were drowned out by traffic noises. (Twenty more were ordered at once.) During the blackout, Mayor Rossi was the only official to be found at City Hall, supposed to be the nerve center of air-raid protection. The Mayor did not see anything to get excited about. Said he: "There were no bombs dropped, were there...