Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor Bill O'Dwyer played it safe. He thought Franklin would make a "great Congressman," but then qualified it by saying he wouldn't dream of interfering in the 20th. After all, he was a Brooklyn Democrat himself, he observed carefully. Then he sent his secretary to "Irish Night" at the Peter J. Dooling (Tammany) Association to announce that the mayor also recognized the claim of Assemblyman Owen McGivern to the nomination. Tammany Boss Rogers hoped that Republican Governor Tom Dewey would mercifully spare him a special election, leave the seat open until November and give him time...
Shaggy-browed Mayor Jean Bouyer, a stonecutter turned Communist during the Nazi occupation, had a reconversion to private enterprise. "Our fields," he announced, "yield 20% uranium. They are the world's richest. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor. There's plenty of good uranium land available here. Since uranium is selling for $278 the kilo in Belgium, it's a fine commercial proposition . . ." In similar booster style, Land Dealer Jean Michelet took aside a visiting TIME correspondent, confided: "Come, now, I am too experienced to believe that you are a journalist...
Arthur Murray dance teachers named the best non-professional dancers of the land, without saying whether they were customers. Among the favored: Joe DiMaggio, Doris Duke, Bing Crosby, Esther Williams and (for "dignity, poise and bearing") New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer and General Mark W. Clark...
...finals, 18,297 crowded into the Garden, hoping for a scoring duel between brawny, 6-ft.-6-in. Jack Kerris of Loyola and skinny, 6-ft.-6-in. Don Lofgran of the Dons. Loyola had brought a large cheering section from Chicago. The San Francisco delegation, led by stocky Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, was much smaller; but at the last minute several hundred Bowling Green rooters turned themselves into an unofficial claque for the Dons...
Families & Friends. From the mill gates, the strike's acid corrosion spread all over town. Fiery Val Bjarnason, U.T.W.'s Ontario director, organized a march on the home of Mayor William England to demand the removal of the provincial police. The mayor, whose own daughter had marched in the strikers' picket line, went to the hospital to rest his shattered nerves...