Word: mayors
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Ruddy and jolly as his bright necktie, Roger Lapham, ex-mayor of San Francisco and boss of ECA's China operation, flew into Washington to report to ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman. The essence of his report was that EGA in China was doing all right. That is, economic aid was being delivered in fair amounts (299,065 bales of cotton by the end of September, 17,800 long tons of flour and 94,000 long tons of rice by early October). Lapham seemed to feel also that the whole job was being carried out in a businesslike, American fashion...
...railroad. Four of us shovel her clear in winter, and clear out any drift that comes down in summer. I get plenty of time to go fishin'. We don't have any officials, you might say. Depending on who's around, the depot master is mayor...
...villain in the piece was bureaucracy; minor officials of the two countries were involved in a prolonged haggle over wages and terms of employment. Meanwhile the braceros milled about in Juárez, restless, hungry and shelterless. Juárez' Mayor Carlos Villarreal pleaded for help. He got it-from an unexpected direction...
...occasion, the 72-year-old hero of the day, snow-thatched Hiram Bingham, ex-Senator from Connecticut (1924-33), ex-Yale professor and explorer, had come all the way from New Haven, Conn. He was greeted by an archbishop, a prefect, two senators, the mayor of Cuzco, and the U.S. ambassador. Together they celebrated the opening of a new highway up Andean cliffs to Machu Picchu (pronounced manchew peaktu), the ancient Inca capital discovered by Explorer Bingham in 1911. The roadway's name, proclaimed by Peru's President Luis Bustamante: the Hiram Bingham Highway (pronounced Eeram Bingam Igwye...
Both Eliot and Kennedy have represented Cambridge in Congress. The former served one term, from 1940 to 1942, before losing to Mayor Curley of Boston, while Kennedy returned from four years in the Navy to win election...