Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the Manhattan newspapers admitted that Mayor LaGuardia had never been in better form. There were 675,000 people in Central Park (some estimates were 750,000) in a patriotic rally to celebrate "I Am An American Day" and the Mayor, facing the biggest crowd in Manhattan's history, let himself go. He led the bands, introduced the speakers, exchanged ancient jokes with Eddie Cantor, and wound up with a message to dictators : "I tell them not to depend on the fifth column in this country because there is only one column here. That is the American column...
...Faces. Besides Justice Douglas, New York City's dynamic, hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia is one of the new managers whom the President may have in mind. Both are nail-hard temperamentally; are doers first and askers afterward. Both are believed to be holding off acceptances of key jobs until they get the power to fire. Both are men of action and of plain speech...
Escape. In Seymour, Tex., Mayor C. M. Randall decreed that the opening day of Texas' fishing season was a holiday. Every school, bank, business house put up shutters, and the 3,500 souls of Seymour went fishing...
Governor Herbert R. O'Connor, of Maryland, and Mayor Howard W. Jackson, of Baltimore, will officially greet the Harvard alumni at the opening luncheon tomorrow afternoon in the Lord Baltimore Hotel...
...press conference the President repeated that the neutrality patrol could go anywhere on the seven seas, that speculation about its extent was futile. (An hour earlier, Admiral Stark had told reporters that U.S. patrols were operating 2,000 miles at sea. Fortnight ago Mayor LaGuardia, as U.S.-Canadian Joint Defense Commissioner, said they were operating 1,000 miles off the coast.) The President said estimates were meaningless, as they depended on where you were measuring from; he would extend the patrol to whatever limits he felt necessary for defense of the Western Hemisphere. He added significantly that, although the Neutrality...