Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honor. In Norwalk, Conn., the city council, considering an increase in Mayor Irving Freese's $48-a-week salary, took note of the fact that he makes $2 less than the garbage collectors...
...small grey building on Paris Quai d'Orsay, tucked away between the French National Assembly and the former Foreign Ministry, lives Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot, Assembly president and perennial mayor of Lyon. In his pale green salon, Herriot last week received several diplomatic callers. They settled on red-upholstered, gilt Louis XV chairs, beneath five huge crystal chandeliers, to discuss one of Europe's great hopes: Western Union. They got nowhere. Britain and France were deeply divided...
Down from the Mountains. Last fortnight Naousa was gay and proud. The town's civic center, decked with Greek and U.S. flags, was renamed Truman Square. General James A. Van Fleet was on hand for the ceremonies. The town's young mayor, Nikolas Theophilou, thanked him for U.S. aid; the general praised Naousa's garrison for bravery against the enemy...
...first daylight, young Mayor Theophilou was seized at home, dragged and kicked through the streets to Truman Square, backed up against a white marble monument. Said a rebel capitanos: "You've had a lot of experience lately making speeches to your American friends. Why not make one for us?" Theophilou straightened and started to answer: "I am mayor of this town and-" A spatter of bullets from rebel Tommy guns cut him off. For three days his body stayed there, propped against the bloodstained marble. Thus the lesson began...
...mother were waiting in the dark hall outside. Herr Arnold finally appeared-a hunchback under five feet tall. His brown, leathery face pursed up with a wry grin as he explained his prosaic cause for flight. He had idly signed a petition for the re-election of the local mayor. After a new mayor was elected, Arnold had been evicted by the police, on various grounds, from seven apartments in the last few months. Finally he decided they had better move for good. Life under the Russians? He grinned: "Ask Helga." Helga solemnly said: "Nicht schön (Not pretty...