Word: mayors
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...York City's Mayor LaGuardia: "Mr. Willkie's utterances ... as far as I have quoted . . . [contain] a total of six different positions on foreign policy, nine contradictions . . . regarding the New Deal's policies and legislation, three contradictions on ... power, and one contradiction each regarding the control of monopolies, Government ownership, Argentine beef, and the Third Term...
...France, mountainous Edouard Herriot, three times Premier, last President of the Chamber of Deputies, Mayor of Lyon, whose booming voice has resounded in French politics since 1905, was arrested by the secret police of Vichy. Having sought security from the Nazis in Switzerland, M. Herriot erred in believing unoccupied France was safe for Radical Socialists, returned...
...York City's hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia, after collaring and shaking the shirt buttons off a tall Detroit heckler who dared ask whether Boss Flynn had sent him, toddled back to Manhattan, pitch-piped (to a N. Y. Herald Tribune Forum audience): "Myself, I never...
With a fair sprinkling of mud, the Plan E campaign reached its peak of verbosity yesterday when Mayor Lyons asserted in a radio speech that only "quacks and parlor pinks" were sponsoring the proposed charter for Cambridge while Dean Landis charged that the last two years here are examples of how a city should not be managed...
Plan E is a streamlined bit of government, a comparatively recent child of political science. For the mayor-boss it substitutes a trained, salaried executive, the city manager, who operates in a strictly non-political sphere. He is solely responsible to the city council, whose members are elected by the community at large. Thus the cell of bossism, the ward, is smashed; and all the petty strings pulled by ward politicians are tied into a strong web around the city council. Further, the dictatorship of the 51 per cent is supplanted by a system of proportional representation, under which each...