Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City has only one mayor, and a little fellow at that. Sandy Springs, S. C. has two-as tall as tamaracks and as quick after quail as anybody in Anderson County. W. K. Moore is 6 ft. 5 in., and wears a Southern statesman's hat. Sam Smith weighs 275 pounds, towers almost as high...
...years ago Dr. Goldwater wanted to retire, spend more time on his hobbies, writing verse and music. But the Mayor could find no one to fill the bill at $10,000 a year. The commissioner advertised in the papers for a $6,500-a-year deputy, promised him "at least one heartbreak a day . . . and at least one hearty laugh a week." Although some 200 men were bold enough to apply, none was acceptable...
Despite the Mayor's pleas, last spring Dr. Goldwater, hoping to get out of his commissioner's job, took another, as head of New York's Associated Hospital Service (3?-a-day plan). Until the Mayor could find someone to take his place, he continued to pinch-hit as hospital commissioner. Last week he was finally able to resign, for the Mayor had persuaded 48-year-old Willard Cole Rappleye, dean of Columbia's medical and dental schools, to fill in for the 15 months of the Mayor's unexpired term. Gentle, white-haired...
...Chicago Swindler Mike McDonald (not P. T. Barnum), says Author Asbury, who observed, "There's a sucker born every minute." During the four terms of Mayor Carter Harrison Sr., McDonald's casino was in effect the city hall, and Chicago's politics well nigh outstank those of William Tweed's New York. Mickey Finn dispensed his deadly cocktails. Fifty thousand men existed solely on free lunch provided by saloons. The mass-murderer H. H. Holmes destroyed from 30 to 300 victims in the torture chambers of his "castle" on 63rd Street...
...unsurpassed in the annals of American crime; he was probably the nearest thing to a real mastermind that this country has yet produced." Torrio boasted, "I own the police," had uniformed officers guard his costlier liquor shipments. In five years of gang warfare 500 mobsters were assassinated. Sniffed Mayor Big Bill Thompson, "It's all newspaper talk...