Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election, Earl had taken a terrific shellacking-a defeat made the more humiliating because it was administered by his old enemy, New Orleans' aggressive young mayor, deLesseps ("Chep") Morrison. Already holding more power than any other U.S. governor, Earl had asked the voters to approve 41 constitutional amendments which would have vastly extended his control over state spending. One amendment would have given him domination of the port of New Orleans through control of the Dock Board which supervises the port's increasing commerce. Another would have made Louisiana State University a mere political subdivision of the governor...
...dear God, please bless the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Girard Trust Co., and the Republican Party." Thus, says Author Struthers Burt, the children of Philadelphia's rich once closed their bedtime prayers. Ever since ex-Mayor Benjamin W. Richards helped found the Girard in 1835 (naming it after Philanthropist Stephen Girard), the bank has been one of Philadelphia's strongest pillars of good business and decorum. It was the first trust company in its district to join the Federal Reserve System; it thought it should, "from the standpoint of patriotism." In its vaults lie the securities that make...
Beck, who directed his confused and far-flung battles with consummate generalship, gained himself a magnificently effective ally. He backed a red-faced, ambitious attorney named John Francis Dore for mayor of Seattle. Dore won and said: "As long as I am mayor ... I am going to do all in my power to help the teaming unions...
OHIO. Tall, curly-haired, able Democrat Frank Lausche, 52, admired by both Democrats and Republicans for his record as Cleveland's mayor (1941-44) and governor (1945-46), evened his score against Republican Governor Thomas Herbert, who had defeated Lausche in the 1946 Republican sweep. Lausche, who had had little to do with organization Democrats, ran far ahead of Harry Truman...
According to George Meade of the Daily Princetonian the dance will be the high spot of the Princeton social season. Mayor Davis and his orchestra will play, and a sumptuous supper will be served at midnight...