Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a non-Jap in New York had just that thought. Said the New York Times, severely: "Of course we want him to be here. . . . The place for the Mayor of New York to be in time of war is in New York...
...those appointees, Social Registerite William Fellowes Morgan Jr., an original member of the Little Flower's "cabinet" (and the best dressed), had been an able commissioner of markets for eight years. Recently the Mayor began picking Mr. Morgan's aides without consulting him. Once when Mr. Morgan objected that he did not even know the appointees, the Little Flower retorted: "Try reading the telephone book instead of the Social Register, you might get to know more people." He also began screeching about some of Mr. Morgan's appointments. He had not time to see Mr. Morgan, straighten...
...diplomats and newsmen are hibernating in corresponding comfort at Bad Nauheim in central Germany, pending exchange. In this war without honor, unlike World War I, the only way of insuring good treatment of U.S. diplomats caught in enemy territory is by strictly quid pro quo treatment. Said William Perry, Mayor of White Sulphur Springs: "We . . . are happy to have this privilege of doing our part during the war crisis...
...mayor and the Employment Security Office manager first got a check list of 187 occupations from Washington. They organized a committee from the local A.F. of L., C.I.O., churches, Chamber of Commerce. They distributed 14,000 lists throughout Kokomo-to policemen, janitors, defense workers, drugstore cowboys. The first returns showed a big supply of skills going to waste in the wrong jobs. One early estimate: 40% of Kokomo labor can be upgraded. For instance...
...John Laurie, Lord Mayor of London, stumbled out of his car in a blackout, fell, broke his wrist. He put off the trip to the hospital till he had done his job: posting outside Mansion House official notice of a royal birth...