Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police could guess what the trio had been after at the N.Y.A.C. Room 1903 was one of a suite occupied by Frank Erickson, reputed to be New York's wealthiest bookmaker, said by Mayor LaGuardia to be a "bum." A zipper bag which the gunmen had left behind them held black masks, wire, cord, wads of cotton-elaborate paraphernalia for a holdup...
Campaigning for a seventh term as Jersey City's mayor, cherub-cheeked Frank Hague rallied patriots to assist him in beating off foreign invasion. Roared the mayor reassuringly: "I am able to safeguard the lives of women and children...
...Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
...Boys Town substitutes tears for sincerity. No one has time for happiness at Boys Town because the boys are too busy blubbering-over the death and burial of a pet mutt, the refusal of an embittered reform-school inmate to cheer up, the adoption and departure of their boy mayor...
Durable Spencer Tracy (Father Flanagan) splashes through this pail of tears with an undampened performance. Kazoo-voiced Mickey Rooney (the mayor) very nearly drowns. The paying customers, unfortunately, are not provided with rain checks...