Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matt Quay, despised personal graft as cheap pocket-picking, lived mostly for the pleasures of the flesh,* and for the perpetuation of high tariffs. Mr. Penrose was a member of the U. S. Senate from 1897 through 1920, but he never achieved his heart's desire: to be mayor of Philadelphia. His nomination was thwarted by a photograph which showed him leaving a celebrated brothel at daybreak...
...picked a candidate for mayor, thought the election was in the bag, and went salmon-fishing off Anacostia Island. When he got back, he found his candidate had been scared out of the race by the late Samuel Davis Wilson, a loud. belchy, vigorous, utility-baiting, renegade Democrat, who campaigned with such ear-catching phrases as: "Before I get through I'll take...
Pompous, handshaking, smiling Richard William Reading was mayor. While Mayor Reading held Detroiters' hands, Judge Ferguson held patient, unnoticed hearings, bided his time. Last January a new administration moved in, stumbled over some decaying policemen and began fumigating the police department. Judge Ferguson decided then that the time was ripe. First gobbet of muck he forked up was a million-dollar conspiracy among city and county officials, policemen and gamblers to operate a baseball pool. Among those he accused: Wayne County's fighting prosecutor ("I'll be in there sluggin' in the people's interest...
Milwaukee's new singing mayor, Carl F. Zeidler (TIME, April 15), was inaugurated in a way that suited him. Instead of the usual simple ceremony in the 750-seat common council chamber, his inauguration took place in the 7,500-seat municipal auditorium, with the entire city council seated at desks on the stage, planes soaring over the roof, a police band tootling, choruses paeaning, a multitude admiring. The mayor's new bodyguard: a singing...
...also, worried last week over a rival coop, Gum Turpentine Farmers Cooperative Association, formed last year at Vidalia, Ga., by small Georgia producers, to buck the influence of factors in the A. T. F. A. Headed by mild, sandy-haired William Capers Rice, 38, mayor of Vidalia, Gum Turp. last year won an estimated $1,000,000 reduction in factorage interest rates and handling charges. It aims now to get rid of small stills dependent on factors, pool output in a central still system...