Word: mayors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boston: A cold wind needled down from the north, dispelling the fog....Power-plant guards were doubled, as they were at factories, shipyards, reservoirs. Air-raid warden posts manned 24 hours a day. All recruiting stations jammed....Governor Saltonstall and Mayor Tobin spoke at a mass preparedness meeting at Faneuil Hall-and when they finished were greeted by the report that enemy planes had been sighted 200 miles from the city....Bellboys on the roof of the Hotel Statler dumped buckets of paint over the arrow on its roof pointing to the airport. Workers at the Navy Yard were released...
...over the U.S. last week, but particularly along both flanks of the U.S., such meetings were held, such plans discussed. Civilian-defense offices up & down both coasts were logjammed with applicants. Mayor LaGuardia's Office of Civilian Defense moved too fast to keep track of its own progress. But this week the civilian-defense picture was taking shape...
...Mayor LaGuardia announced that he will enlist 90,000 licensed pilots, 90,000 student pilots, 100,000 ground workers to serve in a Civil Air Patrol for the war's duration. Under the command of Major General John F. Curry of the U.S. Army Air Corps, CAP will operate from 2,000 airports in the U.S. which are not used for military or commercial flights...
Chief hitch in the Mayor's program so far is lack of air-raid facilities. It would take a mort of heavy cloth to blackout New York City's 10,000,000 windows. Most big cities are so noisy that civilians cannot hear air-raid warnings. New York's Board of Estimate last week appropriated $25,000 to buy sirens. In the newspapers, OCD took full-page advertisements telling civilians what to do ("Keep cool. Stay at home. Put out lights.") if raiders come...
Married. Comedian Mischa Auer, 36; and Singer Joyce Duskin Hunter, 25; each for the second time; day after his wife Norma Tillman's divorce became final; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan...