Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gloria Vanderbilt, now 17 and quite grown up, has been doing Hollywood so hard that most of her $25,750-a-year allowance is reported spent within six months. ≤≤ Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, ex-"bad boy" mayor of Newburyport, Mass., was sentenced to nine months in jail for libeling an Ipswich judge in his weekly paper, ≤≤ Charles ("Mickey) Norman, who hit the front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime...
...Meridian, Miss., Mayor Clint Vinson called on his fellow townsmen to pray for world peace every day at noon, ordered the city waterworks' whistle blown to remind them...
...Yorker wrote to Mayor LaGuardia: "Help me find the reason my husband can't get no work. We got aluminum pots, but nothing to put in them. So send a truck to pick up same...
...Tugwell, who learned Brain Trusting as a professor at Columbia University, resigned from the Resettlement Administration and the Second New Deal in 1936 to become a businessman (American Molasses Co.). Two years later New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia made him chairman of his City Planning Commission. Last winter Secretary Harold Ickes retrieved him for the Fourth New Deal by sending him to Puerto Rico to study land...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia is guest-conducting the National Symphony at its final sunset concert in Washington this week. His responsibilities: two Sousa marches and the Star-Spangled Banner. His father was an Army band leader...