Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This winter's smoke has been the worst so far. Prodded by the city newspapers (and by ambitions for a third term in 1941) St. Louis' stubborn Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann last December agreed that slow moves for smoke abatement had to be turned into fast moves for smoke elimination, set up a seven-man board to consider new measures...
...mechanical fuel burning equipment to burn it smokelessly; 2) all others must use smokeless fuel - coke, oil, briquettes, gas; 3) if necessary the city must buy, sell and distribute smokeless fuel to bring it to consumers cheaply. Those measures were designed to eliminate St. Louis smoke in three years. Mayor Dickmann endorsed the plan, pledged that he would push the recommendations, and deep breathers could look forward to the day when St. Louis air would again be fresh...
...crack at all the G. O. P. Hopefuls came from independent Republican Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's bantam-cock mayor. Withdrawing his name from the Illinois primary ballot, on the excuse that he did not want to divide the liberal vote,* the Mayor said: '. . . I went and saw a movie called Abe Lincoln in Illinois and I looked over the present crop of Republican candidates-phooey...
...were prepared both to clap (unhysterically) and heckle (politely), Neville Chamberlain stepped apologetically to a microphone, cleared his throat and fidgeted with his prepared speech. It was the last of a series of quiet Cabinet statements (and understatements) of Britain's case. The reedy voice began: "My Lord Mayor, my lords, ladies and gentlemen. . . ." Quietly it proceeded, in the well-considered, nicely balanced classical oratory without which no Briton could become a politician and no politician move a Briton: "I don't think there can be doubt in the mind of any reasonable man or woman. . . . I might...
Died. Keikichi Tanomogi, 73, mayor of Tokyo; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. He lit the "Flame of Friendship" brought to the New York World's Fair last year by Akiko Tsukimoto, "Miss Japan...