Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese also announced that they had appointed as mayor of captive Manila a Filipino big shot: swart, well-educated, luxury-loving Jorge Vargas, long one of President Quezon's right-hand men. Whether this was the first step in the establishment of a Philippine equivalent of a Pétain Government, it was too early to say. For it remains to be seen whether after 44 years of American government Filipino civilians will feel as capable of maintaining the fight for their freedom as Filipinos have so far proved in the army of General MacArthur...
...driver's seat now sits squat, swarthy Robert Sidney Maestri, Mayor of New Orleans. Grandson of an Italian immigrant, Maestri is one of the richest men in Louisiana. His father made a fortune selling furniture to the love-for-sale ladies in the cribs of the Vieux Carré. When the cribs were raided, old man Maestri repossessed the furniture, sold it over & over. Bob Maestri put his inheritance in real estate...
...Socialite Harriet Aldrich. Wife of Chase National's Winthrop, she had been appointed by LaGuardia to run the city's whole civilian-defense program. In the interests of unity, earnest Harriet Aldrich thought that all civilian-defense jobs should clear through her. She wrote to Butch. The Mayor sent word to Mr. Morgan to fire Mrs. Davie...
...Morgan sent word back that he would do no such thing. The Mayor replied that he would, then. "All these things grated on my good nature," Mr. Morgan explained later. "And so I went to the Mayor's office at City Hall...
...Yorkers, whom Mr. LaGuardia had been advising to keep calm & cool, decided that it was time Butch took some of his own advice. His friendliest critics, the Manhattan press went to work swatting the Mayor's bottom, a new experience for New York's little cock-of-the-walk. Smacked the Herald Tribune: "The work of the Office of Civilian Defense cannot, in fairness to the nation, be left in such hands." Smacked the Mirror: "The Mayor . . . frenziedly advising people to 'be calm,' draws more raucous laughs than Abbott and Costello." Smacked the World-Telegram...