Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...democracy, having degenerated into America's first dictatorship. [After] years of misrule . . . Jersey City is tottering on the precipice of financial bankruptcy." Both skyborne and ground-gripping words came from Republicans who hoped-but scarcely expected-to pry Frank Hague loose from his 24-year-old seat as mayor of Jersey City. If facts were votes, they might have had a chance to vote...
None of these non-voting facts has shaken Mayor Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague. He was back and boss-busy last week after a winter vacation in Florida, where he hibernates annually in a Spanish villa on Biscayne Bay. There he occasionally visits with Neighbor Ed Kelly, boss-man of Chicago, occasionally drops in at the gambling rooms of the swanky Brook Club, watches the ponies from his box at Hialeah, and freshens up between times with Turkish baths and massages at the ocean-front Roman Pools. Mr. Hague's salary as mayor is $8,000 a year...
...started the week by filing petitions nominating him for another four years on the City Commission. Jersey City will go to the polls on May 13 to elect five commissioners, who serve four-year terms and choose one of their own number to be mayor. Mr. Hague has been chosen uninterruptedly since 1917. From 160,000 registered voters in the city, Hague workers had collected 125,731 signatures to petitions. Only 766 were required. Said smiling Boss Hague, as truckmen lugged the petitions into City Hall: "It is very gratifying. . . . I can assure the people of Jersey City that...
...Connolly of Texas crown bonnie Bonnie Patton, 21-year-old daughter of Texas Congressman Nat Patton and receptionist at the Congressional ladies' cloakroom, as this year's "Miss Capitol Hill." Then, 150 strong, they sped to Manhattan on their eighth annual Easter outing, called duly upon Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whom they found in a reminiscent mood. Sighed he, harking back to his Congressional days: "I once had a good secretary down there, too. But I lost her-I married...
...first dinner was arranged last spring by the then president of the Alumni Association, Dr. Elliot C. Cutler '09, Mosley Professor of Surgery here. Guest speaker last year was Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York, who delivered a broadside against the German invasion of Norway and Denmark...