Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayer John D. Lynch, John H. Corcoran '18., Russell Gerould '20. Mareus Morton, Jr. '21 L. And A. John Serene, who have all received the blessings of Dean Landis in this campaign, are among the nine men leading the field so far. Acting Mayor Francis L. Sennott is top ma with 2519 first-choice votes, followed by Lynch and Corcoran...
...BOSTON--Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was re-elected to a second four-year term tonight by a margin of 9,000 votes over his only formidable opponent, James Michael Curley, whom he defeated by 25,000 votes four years...
...strongest bid for regaining power since the "Little Flower" first became mayor, Tammany has put up as his opponent Brooklyn's District Attorney, William O'Dwyer. Though he has denied official tutelage by the redoubtable Tiger, there can be no doubt that Tammany looks upon him as its candidate. All the ward-heeling machinery which has been growing rusty since La Guardia made up his mind to do away with that kind of a machine age has sprung once more into action. Every Bronz big-shot and Brooklyn saloon keeper who has a finger in the Tammany pie is licking...
...party politics aside, the President had at least three good reasons for giving the Little Flower a hand: 1) the Mayor had risked his own political neck to back Franklin Roosevelt for a third term; 2) LaGuardia is one of the most ardent supporters of the President's foreign policy; 3) the President really thinks that Fiorello LaGuardia is the best mayor New York City ever...
...Hamburg, a teacher displayed to his class a pamphlet, The Jews in the U.S.A., with pictures of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia beside a gorilla, "Jewish Judge Marcus Pecora" (presumably meaning New York Justice Ferdinand Pecora-who is a gentile), the "Jewess" Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. At lesson's end, the teacher asked: "And what do you think of a country like that?" The class roared the Nazi Party battle cry: Judah verrecke! ("Death to the Jews...