Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MABEL S. SHAW, Publisher, Dixon Evening Telegraph WM. V. SLOTHOWER, Mayor of the City of Dixon WALTER C. KNACK, President, Dixon Chamber of Commerce Dixon...
Remembering a costly lesson learned by the U.S. in the years 1919-33, New York's straight-grained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week wrote his Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "Owing to the increased taxes on liquor there might be created a temptation to bootleg. Therefore I wish you would make every effort to nip any such tendency immediately...
...citizens took their drinking water from springs (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940). Latest chapter in the Philadelphia story went back to New Year's Day, 1940 when, amid the jingling of Philadelphia's Mummers' Parade, Robert Eneas Lamberton was sworn in as the city's new Mayor. Mr. Lamberton, a Republican but a nice one (gardening in Germantown, cards at the crusted Union League Club), did what he could. He replaced worn-out motorized equipment, enlarged the police force, got WPA to promise to fix the lights. Last summer he was getting around to the water system...
There was no question of his successor: Bernard Samuel, short, swart, slick ward politician, who had long ago got himself elected to the Philadelphia City Council. As president of the Council he automatically succeeded to the Mayor's office...
...Democrats demanded that Philadelphia vote for a mayor at the elections next month. The argument finally went to the State Supreme Court (all Republican...