Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer of the article on Mayor John Hale Levi (TIME, Feb. 19) did not report the name on the box of stogies correctly. It should have been SHARTZ'S HIGH GRADE STOGIES. I might add that these stogies have been manufactured in Gallipolis, Ohio for over 60 years...
...State employes who are partly paid by the U. S. Government. Squawks came from Indiana's Minton (chum of Paul V. McNutt); from Tennessee's "Crumpet" Stewart (stooge of Memphis' Boss Ed Crump) and Illinois' Lucas (collaborator with Chicago's mayor-Boss Ed Kelly...
...many a newspaper the program drew meager headlines; more exciting as immediate news had been the selection of Philadelphia as the convention city, of June 24 as the convention date. Dopesters had picked Chicago; GOP wiseacres wanted to meet in borderline Illinois. But Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly promised a mingy $125,000 to meet convention expenses; more eloquently Philadelphia's Mayor Robert Lamberton promised to lay $200,000 on the line. Money talked...
Citizens of Montclair, N. J. had a mighty pretty letter in their mail last week. The letter, from Mayor William E. Speers and Director of Revenue and Finance Bayard H. Faulkner, said that the town treasury had a surplus of half a million dollars. "What do you think?" said the letter, "would you rather reduce the town's debt another $100,000, leaving $400,000 to cut 1940 taxes-or cut 1940 taxes the full $500,000? The enclosed postcard is for your judgment. . . ." When Montclair's taxpayers had calmed down sufficiently to reply, they answered that they...
...loneliest men in Louisiana last week was New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri. Gone were most of his henchmen, gone were most of his pals. Some 200 had been indicted by U. S. and Parish (County) Grand Juries, charged with sundry tricks of fraud, graft, income-tax evasion. Three had killed themselves. In U. S. courts five had pleaded guilty, five more had been tried and convicted. Among the head men of the Maestri machine (which once was Huey Long's), only Maestri himself and Huey's loud little brother, Governor Earl Long, were left untouched...