Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor Lyons, who scorned the system as a "foreign importation," is well known for his rationalization on snow clearance, "God brought it. He'll have to take it away...
Under the new system, nine men will be elected to a council by proportional representation from a ballot which already contains ever 90 names. The council elects a mayor from among its own members, who holds down a purely ceremonial post. The nine councillors hire a non-political city manager who runs the city as a business organization and is responsible solely to them...
...Thus a mayor-boss government, with its ramifications of ward machines, is eliminated at least on paper...
That the city's management was negligent, wasteful, and perhaps corrupt is partially brought out by the fact that its erstwhile mayor, John W. Lyons, is facing 42 charges of requesting and accepting bribes from various contracting and building concerns...
...Harvard is the nation's most dangerous school, because it turns out 'pink-tea Communists,' specially trained to work for the left side." --William J. Goodwin, "American Rock" party candidate for Mayor of New York City; from an article in the New York Herald-Tribune...