Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant report was made by the mayor of Poplar. This Blitzed London borough had 23,000 buildings at break of war. Thus far 14,000 of them have been damaged, but 10,000 battered houses have again been made habitable. Two thousand have been officially condemned as unlivable and another two thousand already have been cleared away by the demolition squads...
Though Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima was still unaccounted for, new whipping boys for the rebellion were turned up every day. One was Mihai Itsa-Marin, one-armed mayor of the Bucharest suburb of Serban-Voda. accused, with his wife, of 87 murders during the revolt, of concealing 70 truckloads of Iron Guard loot in his home - cotton, wool, silk, furniture, canned goods, jewelry, silverware...
...nine years of secrets; left with the high regard of White House reporters, who were eternally grateful to him for many things but especially one-the night of Feb. 15, 1933, at the Miami Bay Front Park when Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead. All White House reporters were on the train a quarter-mile away. Henry ran the quarter-mile, gave them a thorough fillin, saved their jobs to a man. Kannee last week resigned his $6,000-a-year position to get "considerably more" as assistant to Chairman...
...voice to be heard from the outside. Last week the voice was silenced. Sitting in his Manhattan study, Kenneth Simpson collapsed with a heart attack, managed to call to his wife for help before he died. Tributes poured in from many he had fought-from President Roosevelt, Tom Dewey, Mayor LaGuardia. The short story of Kenneth Simpson's national career was over...
Informed that Nazis have picked Vienna to supplant Paris as world's fashion centre, New York's style-minded Mayor Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia grinned: "I think that indicates that they expect to control everything, if they win. I would refer that matter to Senator Wheeler...