Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State races this year, Administration forces worked like nailers to put up a New Deal slate in the primary. They succeeded. Their two top men, rugged Monrad C. Wallgren (for Senator) and Gubernatorial Nominee Clarence C. Dill, drew two rugged Republican opponents: Gubernatorial Draftee Arthur B. Langlie, aggressive Seattle Mayor, and ex-Democrat Stephen F. Chadwick, American Legionnaire, who is riding the Willkie coattails hard...
...Donated ?1,000 ($4,000) to the Lord Mayor's London Air Raid Distress Fund...
Roger Lowell Putnam, son of the Mayor of Springfield, represents Massachusetts political life while Thomas D. Cabot comes from Beacon Street...
...Mayor James John Walker of New York City, blithe, debonair, and Tammany's greatest vote-getter, swamped his Republican rival by 500,000 votes. The rival was Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. In 1932 Governor Franklin Roosevelt held hearings on Mayor Walker's conduct of his office, during which Mayor Walker resigned. Fiorello LaGuardia, making much of Mayor Walker's misdoings, in due time became New York City's mayor...
Last week New Yorkers rubbed their eyes at finding the names Walker-Roosevelt-La Guardia tied together again. After lunch at the White House, Mayor LaGuardia flew back to Manhattan and, as he explained upon landing, at 7,000 feet up in the air it suddenly occurred to him to appoint James Walker "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of Manhattan's giant cloak & suit industry. Salary: $20,000. Gravely David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and ardent pro-Roosevelt campaigner, hailed James Walker's "wide executive experience" as fitting him for the complex...