Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been. When the votes were counted Quin, very pleased, had 17,437, Maverick got 16,142. Some 2,000 votes for four minor candidates made a runoff necessary. Ex-Mayor Quin got more than Maverick of both the Negro and the Mexican vote. San Antonio's businessmen were for Maverick, but Maverick's New Dealism kept them from being ardent...
After 28 years, without interruption, during which Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague has dominated Jersey City, its voters last week went to the polls with another opportunity to oust him as mayor. The issue was whether they would elect Republicans who made charges of confiscatory taxes, fraudulent elections and municipal corruption, or whether they would again have Hague, who now promises to defend his constituents from the totalitarian menace. To no one's surprise they chose beaming Boss Hague-his tellers counted it as a 100,703-to-13,425 victory...
...considered that this is the eighth time the voters of Jersey City have registered their desire for a continuance of the type of government which my administration has given to them since my entry into the City Commission in 1913." The only major embarrassment that the 65-year-old mayor may face in his next four years of rule is that Jersey City may go bankrupt...
Although students of municipal government have long agreed that Philadelphia is afflicted with political dry rot, that its water supply and fire protection are decrepit ("Filtered filth!" the late Mayor S. Davis Wilson said of Philadelphia water), few Philadelphia politicians have ever admitted that anything is wrong with their fair city. But last week Philadelphia's bumbling mayor, Robert E. Lamberton, was forced to sit through two detailed and heavily documented indictments of Philadelphia as a place to live...
Billows of cigar smoke obscured the mayor's sunburst face. He later told reporters : "I am very happy I wasn't called upon to speak. I would have called his attention to ... worse slums. ... A little information is a dangerous thing and Pomeroy has a little...