Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invaders from the East. He was born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty potentates. Says one Hungarian priest: "The Primate is a great man, it is true. But his father-he was an even greater...
Boston's "Battle of the Plans" is just one more phase in the struggle between the friends of James Michael Curley and the opponents of James Michael Curley. In trying to strengthen his hold on the city, the Mayor has made some enemies, some in his own party, many more among the independent vote. The opposition got a glimmer of hope last year when the Massachusetts State Legislature passed a bill enabling Boston to take advantage of the Uniform Charter Act, which allows a city to choose between five types of city charter if the citizens want a revision. Curley...
...boss faced a stiff test; above all things he had to keep Plan E off the ballot-he couldn't take a chance on its slipping by. It not only replaces the Mayor with a council-appointed city manager; it goes on to specify that members of the Council be elected by proportional representation. This means that each citizen would vote on all Council seats, numbering his choices among the candidates in order of preference. Thus the plan wipes out the ward system, the basis for the machine; Curley's power would be sharply narrowed at the bottom, where...
...Plan A, supporters of Plan E and a smaller group behind Plan D. The boss, although stating emphatically that he wanted no change, finally put his organization behind Plan A; it's the least of three evils so far as he is concerned. Plan A provides for a strong Mayor and doesn't have the unpleasant proportional representation rider attached, although it does out the Council from 22 to nine members, lopping off some important sources of graft for the machine. Of course Curley, intends only to confound the opposition; he will drop his support of the plan once...
Snarling Plan E was a major victory for the Mayor; it proved that his latest machine is coming of age. The "Battle of the Plans" is only a symptom of an underlying tangle in Boston. As long as people are willing to pay the price of bossism because they think that it serves them well-and many Bostonians consider Curley a fine Mayor-they can expect these debacles at almost regular intervals...