Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Harry Truman was in hot water again. Leaving Washington for a two-day cruise on the Potomac accompanied only by his naval aide, the President precipitately decided on his new Secretary of Labor: handsome, 47-year-old Maurice J. Tobin, Boston's popular ex-mayor and former governor of Massachusetts (1945-46). The one point the President had neglected was to get Tobin's acceptance in advance. A candidate for governor again, Tobin was in no hurry to make up his mind about accepting or rejecting the Cabinet job. Before he did either...
Even cagey old opportunist Mayor Camillien Houde of Montreal jumped on the Duplessis bandwagon, just in time. He kissed and made up with his archenemy, then set out to top Duplessis in headline catching. Houde howled that the inclusion of. Newfoundland as the Dominion's tenth province was a foul plot to bring in 350,000 British votes to drown out French Canada, that Prime Minister King started World War II by "provoking Hitler," that Louis St. Laurent was a discredited leader of the French Canadians and should resign. When it was all over, jubilant Union Nationale supporters paraded...
Formally presented to New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer by "Miss California of 1948": one box of raisins...
Picasso himself stayed away from the fair's opening-he spent the day turning out more pots and vases in a friend's tiny factory-but his worshipers flocked from far away to see what the master was up to now. Vallauris' Communist mayor sized up the well-heeled throng with a joyful eye, and announced his intention of making Picasso an honorary citizen of the town ("My friend the mayor of Antibes and his gang of De Gaullists are going to die of envy...
Idlewild Airport Dedication (Sat. 2:30 p.m., all radio networks; ABC & NBC television). President Harry Truman, Governor Thomas E. Dewey and New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer...