Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Coast, while civilian defense was still operating, was a military area (see p. 9). Along the East Coast, where confusion was as thick as anywhere, a horrible example was Mayor LaGuardia's own New York City. City Hall, where the Little Flower was trying to be mayor of the nation's biggest city while he was also heading OCD, was in an uproar. Workmen piled into the mayor's offices, tore up floors, laid wires, erected parti tions. Women in blue-grey uniforms, brass buttons and gold epaulets snapped salutes at one another and the mayor...
Plans for blackouts were made, announced, called off. The mayor said it would "take 27,000 men or women to turn off by hand the street lights. . . . There are 27,000 separate switches." The Board of Estimate appropriated $25,000 for sirens. One horn was tried. Citizens a few blocks away, anxiously listening, heard nothing but a faint moo. Most people heard nothing...
...Walter Lippmann, "Mrs. Roosevelt's talent for sugar-coating the matter with all manner of fads, fancies, homilies and programs which would have been appropriate to the activities of an excited village improvement society" and the "desk-thumping, the shrill appeals, the threats and warnings" of Mayor LaGuardia were not appropriate to the "grim business" of civilian defense. It should all be put under the jurisdiction of the War Department, said Mr. Lippmann. "The facts of the situation, and the morale of the people require lucid and authoritative commands." Mrs. Roosevelt should stop confusing everyone by being a minor...
...California (see p. 11). Police rounded up "a fair number" of the 24,000 Japanese on the coast, while Naval authorities decommissioned 1,000 Japanese fishing boats by removing their carburetors. Vancouver had three blackouts, the first of which sent 30 traffic accident victims to the hospital. The mayor of Victoria panicked the citizens by declaring: "The Japanese are off the Aleutian Islands. We expect them here any time. The situation is very serious...
...Mayor Carl Zeidler of Milwaukee plumped for he-mannish nattiness in city employes, declared: "Government must be sold to the public. What is needed is eye-appeal...