Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot for spreading Bolshevik propaganda among U. S. troops. Friends intervened and he was released. He returned to the U. S. and a life of soapbox orating, street-corner meetings, parades, riots, writing for the Daily Worker, which he edited. He went through the motions of running for Mayor of New York City, for Governor of the State. As his third wife he married an ex-socialite, Lydia Gibson...
...Mayor William Joseph Byrne of sleepy Natchez, Mass. (pop. 15.296) is a man who likes a fine grimy factory smoking up Southern skies, freight trains bumping and clattering musically on jasmine-scented nights, all the noise, payrolls and progress that come with industrialization. Last week Mayor Byrne was an unhappy man, for commerce was dislocated. The struggle that Natchez has dreaded for four years had begun in earnest: the two garden clubs of the town were in open battle.Natchez citizens heard the sinister sound that is produced only by the flouncing of hoop skirts to the accompaniment of a sniff...
This time the heroine was Viscountess Astor. As acting mayor of Plymouth town, the trigger-tongued Lady from Virginia had spent the day showing King George and Queen Elizabeth around the city. She sat in the dining room of her house on the Hoe with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, with her 17-year-old dock-working nephew, James Brand (son of the distinguished banker Robert Henry Brand, who was last week in the U. S. buying food for Britain), and with an American correspondent. It was 8:30 p.m. Nancy Astor was tired, but she kept...
...members. Most of the exhibitors had been commercial artists in peacetime. Their show was all eyewitness stuff: fires, explosions, firemen climbing ladders, playing hoses into flame-licked buildings. A. F. S. plans, when Londoners are through looking at their smokeater art, to send it to Manhattan, where Mayor LaGuardia, an old fire buff, has arranged to have it exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York...
Cadden referred to the Tunney group by saying that "it has a beautiful office in Radio City, but is in no way representative of youth, and never has had any support from them. As for McArthur, I think the students will prove themselves Americans without any help from Mayor Hague...