Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orange, N. J., a twelve-year-old boy scanned a list of draft numbers in the city hall. "Looking for your dad's number, sonny?" beamed the mayor. "Naw!" said the small fry, "my teacher's. I sure hope he goes...
...Missouri there was one of the biggest upsets in the State's political history. For years Lawrence McDaniel, a roly-poly, wisecracking, dependable Democratic wheelhorse, has missed big victories by a hair. Once he was almost mayor of St. Louis. This year he resigned as City Excise Commissioner to run for Governor. Opposing him was Forrest Donnell, an unassuming Republican attorney who had never held public office before. Confident Candidate McDaniel tasted victory prematurely. As Missouri's Democratic victory came through on schedule, jubilant Candidate McDaniel had a lead of 50,000 on Tuesday night, with...
...Last week, undaunted Am Ex officials rolled with this punch. Led by quick-smiling, deep-voiced Vice President James Murchie Eaton, they went to Baltimore, threw a party aboard their new ocean freighter S.S. Executor. While 60 guests ogled the boat, Am Ex bigwigs huddled with Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, trying to solve another problem: a U. S. landing place for their would-be airline. Because New York's North Beach Airport (where Pan Am's Clippers roost) is already overcrowded, Am Ex cannot base there. Mayor Jackson stayed aboard three hours, left after assuring Am Exers...
Public Sale. . . . If you have ever had the desire to own a town and be the Postmaster, Mayor, School Board, Chief of Police, High Constable, Nightclub Host, Sunday-School Teacher, Fire Chief, Theatrical Director, Athletic Coach, Gas-Station Attendant, Promoter of Beauty Contests, and operate the General Store . . . please wake up and sing for there's some one knocking at your Side Door...
...newsreel shots of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in action-its soldiers, palaces, pomp. The death ride at Sarajevo (TIME, July 3, 1939), vividly reconstructed, includes such precise detail as the abortive attempt at assassination during the parade to the City Hall, the Archduke's angry retorts to the Mayor's friendly welcome, the confusion over changing the return route of the parade...