Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snapper," Boss Crump. One was to make all east-west streets avenues. Caught in that genteeling was the street of dance halls, voodoo doctors, fortune tellers and saloons that Blueswriter W. C. Handy made famous in Beale Street Blues. Last week a counter-reform movement gathered such power that Mayor Walter Chandler, longtime Crumpet, had to take notice. Memphis Negroes couldn't get used to living on Beale Avenue. They wanted to be back on Beale Street, the way the tune says...
Charleston's merchants (who, unlike the old families, have long since warmed to the little TVA) rose in arms. Cried Mayor Henry W. Lockwood: "It seems that . . . the constant nagging of the newspaper on the Authority and everything the New Deal is for has brought this thing to a head. . . . The next thing you are going to do is lose your Navy Yard...
...Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex. defined economics: "Whether you eat or not, and that...
...Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex. defined economics: "Whether you eat or not, and that...
...Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York City said in a speech today that "you cannot feed people on epigrams, no matter hew snappy they are." and the 1940 Presidential candidates "semingly cannot be specific" on national issues...