Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second-rate theater in the British sector, the Kurbel (meaning: the crank). The theater is in a neighborhood heavily populated by Polish Jewish D.P.s. One night last week, D.P.s rioted in the moviehouse, stopped the show, damaged the theater. Berlin Jewish groups and Ernst Reuter, Berlin's mayor, appealed to the British to ban the movie...
...mayor and the village clerk were both away when sleek, dark-suited Willem Johannes Janse van Rensburg rolled importantly into dusty Hennenman in a big car marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
...week's end, when Montreal's Mayor Camellien Houde puffed up to McGill for the carnival ball, he put the crown on Beryl Dickinson-Dash's head. In the voting by McGill's 8,500 students (150 of them Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...
...York's Mayor William O'Dwyer sailed from sunny Manhattan for an eleven-day vacation in sunny Havana...
Columnist Walter Winchell thought he had a hot tip on a romance. In his column last month, he passed it on in the leering questions: "What was His Honor, the Mayor, buying in Tiffany's the other antemeridian? Some doodad for his delovely?" New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer denied it. Not being a radio commentator, he said, he couldn't afford Tiffany...