Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was too much for the badgered Mayor. In desperation he called on that political warhorse, Vice President...
Gustavo Cuervo Rubio, for help. Under Cuervo's guidance he plunged across the street, burst into the Council shouting: "Unconstitutionality!" Like a match in a powder keg, this touched off a fiery debate. Presently Mayor Menocal gave up, sat down. Now thoroughly humiliated-as the Communist-keyed majority of the Council intended he should be-Mayor Menocal decided they all might just as well hold the induction ceremonies in the Municipal Building...
Democratic Cleveland's Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton had won 17 consecutive elections when he defied Ohio Boss Ed Schorr last spring and got the Republican nomination for Senator. This week dark, grey-eyed Hal Burton came through once more, handily defeated onetime (1937-39) Democratic Congressman John McSweeney...
Secretary of War Henry Stimson was expected to resign about Jan. 1. For the vacancy New Dealers wishfully promoted Robert P. Patterson, now Assistant Secretary. But best indications were that Patterson would go with Stimson. New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was still a strong possibility...
...with one of the screwiest publicity campaigns in advertising history. It founded the National Dunking Association, claims for it more than three million members (including Congressman Jennings Randolph, Mrs. Martin Johnson, Martha Graham); holds dunking contests, gets dunking testimonials from unlikely bigwigs like Novelist Pearl Buck. Said she: "If Mayor LaGuardia and Hitler only would get together and dunk a couple of doughnuts, they would see life through the same rose-colored glasses." Standing on his head atop Manhattan's Chanin Building, Flagpole Sitter Shipwreck Kelly ate 13 doughnuts one Friday the 13th...