Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day the Mayor hurried to Washington for a conference with the President. For weeks Fiorello LaGuardia has been turning down appeals to head the civilian defense organization of the U.S. He has been holding out for a job with Cabinet status. Last week, the day after Manhattan's sensational rally, he gave in. But when asked if he would keep on being Mayor he ducked by saying that it was up to the voters. Already co-chairman of the joint Canadian-U.S. defense board, he will divide his time between New York City and Washington...
...projected by Braintruster Wayne Coy, the civilian defense organization will have three big objectives: 1) to translate defense needs to States and towns; 2) to co-ordinate civilian effort; 3) to boost national morale. Even before the Mayor took the job, the Office for Emergency Management had blueprinted a set-up for volunteer air-raid spotters, to be functioning by June 15, calling for observation posts on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, with some 16 volunteer spotters for each post. Volunteer groups all over the U.S. - especially women's clubs and American Legion posts - have long been active...
Washington made no bones about the biggest effect it wanted to achieve: to make the war real and immediate to ordinary U.S. citizens. It was generally agreed that the Mayor's new job could be about whatever he wanted to make it. There was every likelihood that bustling Fiorello was determined to make...
That record looked good for a reform mayor, looked particularly good compared with that of his opponent, tall and grey-haired, dignified and distant, Charles Quin. San Antonio's mayor for six and a half years before Maverick defeated him in 1939. Maverickos had no trouble making his administrations look like epics of graft, incompetency, black reaction...
...while Maverickos were standing on the record, ex-Mayor Quin was buttonholing Mexicans in the Mexican district, Negroes in the Negro quarters. He had the support of Harvard-educated Negro Boss Valmo Bellinger. Quin's men made the most of San Antonio's worst riot, when Maverick insisted on permitting a Communist rally at San Antonio's auditorium, until townspeople and legionnaires broke it up in spite of the entire police and fire departments. Maverickos were sure the rally, although not forgotten, had been forgiven...