Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High-minded was the appeal of curly-haired Mayor Kelly of Chicago, who spoke of the city's 27 railroads, its newspapers, the reasonableness of its hotel accommodation, and who said that, while Chicago would meet any reasonable figure, "we in Chicago are not here to be put on the auction block...
Down in No'th Ca'lina, which some unkind person once called a valley of self-consciousness between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
Manchester's worried Lord Mayor rose from his seat, walked over to apologize to Winston Churchill. "It's all right," the First Lord reassured him-but in a voice loud enough to be picked up by the microphone and hurled to the extremities of the British Empire: "I'll hold them. I have had 40 years' experience addressing many rowdy meetings." Later that day the Berlin short-wave radio gave this critique of the Churchill talk: "His speech was a boisterous tour de force of jingoism mixed with boastful exaggeration and elegant bluff...
Since last spring the world's biggest public school system, New York City's, has wallowed along like a superliner with a laming leak. The New York State Legislature and Mayor LaGuardia knocked $8,300,000 out of the schools' budget. The Board of Education at once hoisted an SOS ("Save Our Schools"), but the public paid little attention...
...York City's peppery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sat on the conference table before which coal teamsters and employers agreed to end a strike, sauced the ganders by having the heat shut off in the conference room...