Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jovial White House press conference he endorsed hen-shaped little Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Republican candidate for a third term as Mayor of New York City...
...undercut one of his most loyal friends and party advisers: Boss Edward J. Flynn, Jim Farley's successor as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It was Boss Flynn who helped pick Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer as a likely candidate to run against Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, July 28). Said a White House correspondent: "Mr. President, there have been reports . . . that Mr. Flynn would resign if you supported Mayor LaGuardia." The President's smile vanished. He looked hard at the reporter. Then he answered curtly that he did not think there was any story...
...gala tour of the College and of the Hub has been planned for Maria, who is best known as a model of the latest fashions in sweaters for Life magazine. Mayor Tobin and Governor Saltonstall will give her the keys to the city when she arrives on Thursday, and later she will be brought to Harvard for a tour of the Yard, a press reception at Phillips Brooks House, and a broadcast over the Crimson Network...
Joseph Stalin ordered speedy preparations. He had Comrade Mayor Pronin address the citizens. Street-to-street plans were laid. Old women, small children and useless people were evacuated. "The breath of the front is strongly felt here," wrote Tass, official news agency. "A new line of defenses is being constructed. . . . People of the most varied professions have taken to the spade-women, weavers, streetcar drivers, students and teachers." Moscow changed within a week from capital into fortress...
...citizen, last week awaited Senate action on a special bill the House had just passed to make him and daughter U.S. citizens. Would-be Citizen Lin is better known as Leslie Charteris, bemonocled creator of Simon Templar, "The Saint." ∙∙ In Minneapolis 37-year-old Theodor Broch, ex-Mayor of Narvik, applied for U.S. citizenship. Under Nazi sentence of death he escaped from Norway in June 1940. ∙∙Home to the U.S. came Countess Jeanne von Bernstorff, 73-year-old widow of Germany's Ambassador to the U.S. in World War I. A U.S. citizen since...