Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Headed for a New York honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. David Fromal of Newport News, Va. parked their car in the wrong place in Baltimore, were held up for four days and had their car impounded because Fromal had forgotten the registration card. To make amends, Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro gave them the key to the city, paid their fine, saw that they got their car back. The Baltimore News-Post wined & dined them, gave them theater tickets. The Fromals decided to finish their honeymoon in Baltimore...
...Mayor George Baker of Decorah, Iowa, who says young men aren't what they used to be, offered $50 to anyone who could match his grandfather's feat of carrying a 60-lb. sack of wheat nine miles from Conover to Decorah in one hour and 55 minutes. Ten tried. Six made it, through a snowstorm. Two of them bettered grandfather's time- by 15 and 14 minutes, respectively...
...delegate was given a white card, to make the voting look impressive when they raised their hands. The leader, proposed that the present "undemocratic, reactionary city administration be dismissed." The white cards fluttered like snow on the wind; the vote in favor was unanimous. A candidate was proposed for mayor, and again the white cards waved. A list of proposed city councilors was quickly rattled off; was everybody in favor? The white cards said...
...Self-Evident Suppositions." The new mayor was plump, balding Friedrich ("Fritz") Ebert, renegade son of a famed father. The elder Ebert was the first president of the Weimar Republic, a vigilant democrat who was credited with squelching the Communist uprising of 1918. Fritz, the son, opposed Hitlerism at first and spent years in a concentration camp, but finally weakened and worked under the Nazis as a publishing house director. He is now generally known as a drunkard, a weakling and a turncoat. Many Germans expect the Russians to give him the heaveho as soon as they have exploited his name...
...Communists evidently felt that the authority of the "people's government" needed bolstering. They said it was provisional; Red Mayor Ebert promised "free" elections as soon as "self-evident suppositions" could be established (doubletalk meaning "as soon as a Communist victory could be safely rigged...