Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer day in 1920, Oscar Holcombe was cooling off at a soda fountain in Houston's old Scanlan Building. He ridiculed the idea that he should run for mayor. He explained to a friend that he was happy and prosperous as a building contractor. But he ran anyway, defeated the city attorney, the vice president of the Houston Post and a county commissioner who was considered the shoo-in candidate. He did it by "shaking hands with everybody in town . . . up one side of the street and down the other...
Barreling Along. Holcombe, now 59, has given Houston more than flamboyant campaigns. He has given it good, efficient government. Recently, during a barroom debate about their mayor, one Houstonian acidly denounced Holcombe. "Yeah," answered a man with a long memory, "but how do you like those mayors who come in between...
...City Assembly, chosen in the West Berlin elections, will take office in January. As interim mayor, the present assembly picked popular, forthright Socialist Ernst Reuter (whose party had won 64.5% of the total vote), ex-Communist, ex-concentration-camp inmate. Reuter was elected mayor of Berlin in 1946 but was prevented by the Russians from taking office. Last week he asked the Western powers to increase the airlift to 8,000 tons...
From the money usually spent on soloists, the Philharmonic's smart Conductor Robert Whitney, urged on by Mayor Charles P. Farnsley, commissioned six new ten-minute works for $500 each by Virgil Thomson, Darius Milhaud, Roy Harris, Italy's Gian Francesco Malipiero, Spain's blind Joaquin Rodrigo, Louisville's own Claude Almand. Four of the composers were promised another $500 apiece for conducting their own world premieres...
Soon young Father McLoughlin began to be almost as well-known in Phoenix as the mayor. He organized a slum clearance campaign and wangled federal funds for three major housing projects. He started a church for poor people in a vacant store. Then he began to crusade for a hospital for the poor. He persuaded Mrs. Roosevelt to make a special trip to Phoenix on behalf of the project, and in 1943 the 232-bed St. Monica's Hospital was built, at a cost of more than $500,000. Father McLoughlin served as superintendent. He was also chairman...