Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climbed nervously into an open convertible, sat himself on the top of the back seat and rolled slowly up Broadway to receive Manhattan's traditional hero's welcome-the cheers of 250,000, a bath of ticker tape and confetti and a key to the city from Mayor William O'Dwyer...
...Cannot Fight On." West Berlin's mayor begged the U.S., British and French to let Western police take over the protection of all railways in their sectors. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley called the Western commandants into session to discuss what he called an "intolerable situation." To avoid international complications just before the Paris Big Four meeting, the commanders hedged. Western police, they decided, could intervene only to restore order when individual fights got out of hand...
Even New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer got into the ruckus. He belabored the board for ignoring anti-Hovde sentiment in Queens". Later, after public reminders that the appointment was none of his business ("An unseemly bumble," cried the New York Herald Tribune), he backed down. But Hovde withdrew his name from the pot. So, a short time later, rdid another promising candidate, Walter Consuelo Langsam, president of 1,200-student Wagner Memorial Lutheran College on Staten Island. On reflection, he decided to stay where he was. The board, which didn't care much...
...defended the Mayor against this criticism. "The Queens taxpayers provided the funds that created the college and they now foot the bills. Their children make up the student body. Certainly they should have everything to say in the selection of their college president and the type of philosophy that is taught their children. This is not Russia; this is America and the rights of the citizens must prevail...
Feiner's trial began on May 6. The policemen who arrested him testified that Feiner had called the Syracuse mayor a "champagne-sipping bum," President Truman a "drunken bum," New York Mayor O'Dwyer a "bum," and American Legionnaires "Nazi Gestapo agents...