Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election in the spring was there too: Bernard F. Dickmann, Mayor of St. Louis. Short, barrel-chested, hefty, son of a prosperous old St. Louis family, a Marine Corps sergeant in World War I, he was the popular boss of St. Louis' powerful, smooth-functioning Democratic machine. He took his job seriously. He had pushed through the ordinance that had at last solved St. Louis' smoke problem. Scandals (like the Post-Dispatch exposé of 46,000 fraudulent registrations) had been lived down; splits had been sewed up. And Mayor Dickmann seemed much more like a reform mayor...
...seat Donnell. The State's political life was thrown into unholy tumult for six weeks as Governor Stark's term expired and Democratic politicos refused to let Donnell's begin. Democratic Governor Stark demanded that Donnell be seated, the election contested afterwards. What part did Mayor Dickmann play? He stoutly denied any part in the plot to keep Governor Donnell out, but he did not protest...
...favor. The legislature subsided. The vote at the Republican primary in St. Louis the next month was surprisingly large, but that, of course, was because there were four candidates fighting for the nomination. The Democratic primary vote was small, but that, of course, was because the renomination of Mayor Dickmann was in the bag. The Republicans picked a good man-William Dee Becker, 64, a St. Louis Court of Appeals judge for 24 years-but of course he didn't have a chance...
...Soon after dimpled, 35-year-old Tobacco Scion Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr. lent Democratic campaign committees some $300,000 last year, he found himself treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Last week Neophyte Reynolds' political career advanced another step when fellow North Carolinians put him up for mayor of Winston-Salem. - As London's famed, 300-acre Royal Botanic Gardens at Suburban Kew celebrated its centenary with unabated activity and attendance, doughty old Director Sir Arthur Hill chortled: "Hitler's bombs have failed to do as much damage as the disastrous hailstorm of 1879," announced that against...
...prolific was Bangs that the number of his pseudonyms put a strain on his wit. They included Shakespeare Jones, Gaston V. Drake, Periwinkle Podmore, Horace Dodd Gastit, A. Sufferan Mann. In politics he was defeated for Mayor of Yonkers, but became a very useful bird dog for the imperialism of Roosevelt I and General Leonard Wood in Cuba (on which he wrote a book) and in the Philippines. Had Wood been nominated in 1920, Bangs would probably have gone to the Court of St. James's. In the reconstruction of France he more or less worked himself to death...