Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balmy morning last week, on the second day of their Easter vacation, a mob of pupils gathered before Manhattan's Townsend Harris High School. When they marched in to classes, 850 of the school's 1,200 enrollment were present. Object: to protest against Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's plan to economize by closing their 93-year-old school, alma mater of such celebrities as Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Cinema Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson. Language classes wrote letters in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, protesting to the Mayor (who understands Italian, French, German, Yiddish...
...Someone placed a floral horseshoe on home plate. Red-coated brass-bandsmen, tootling gaily, marched off toward the flagpole leading a procession of flag-bearing U.S. Marines, high-hatted bigwigs and sheepish ballplayers, shuffling out of step. The flag was raised, the Star-Spangled Banner reached high F, the mayor threw out the first ball. Thus traditionally the baseball season opened last week. Immediately dopesters' expectations were knocked out of the ball park...
...York Yankees had whitewashed the Washington Senators, 3-to-0. That surprised no one. In only four out of his seven previous starts as the season's opening pitcher had President Roosevelt watched the Senators come through for him. But in their hometown opener at Yankee Stadium, with Mayor LaGuardia pitching the first ball, the Yankees looked like bushers instead of co-favorites (with the Cleveland Indians) to win the American League pennant this year. Against Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, a 100-to-1 shot in pre-season betting, they were drubbed...
...tale told by the Hearstlings: a number of American Legion Posts, several other veterans' societies, as well as the California Sons of the American Revolution, had found subversive propaganda in the broadcasts of CBS's Free Company, particularly in a program called His Honor, the Mayor, written and directed by Orson Welles...
...Honor, the Mayor, which aroused Mr. Hearst and Legionnaires, described how an honest, small-town mayor supported the right of assembly by letting a gang of fascistic "White Crusaders" hold a meeting, then held a bigger and better meeting of his own. Another Free Company drama to which the Legion objected was The Mole on Lincoln's Cheek. It made a plea for freedom to teach, put in a plug for honest textbooks. Probable cause of the Legion's gripe was that its characters included a few witch-hunting operatives of a "Veterans' League...