Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Names Please. "We'll find out what's there or I'll know the reason why," stormed Glen Cove's mayor when Stanco made his report. "We'll take it up with the United Nations direct." Glen Cove's people said nothing. "They come," a candy-store proprietor told a reporter of his Russian customers, "they buy, and they go. But don't use my name or my address. With the world situation the way it is, you never can tell...
...hour that evening the sodden delegates had sat through a memorial service to Franklin D. Roosevelt, only half aware of the ceremony's bad taste, bored by its dreariness. "We are here to honor the honored dead," rasped New York's Mayor O'Dwyer. "Won't you please act accordingly?" But neither Bill O'Dwyer's pleas, nor prayers, nor singing, nor oratory dented the delegates' torpor. The rumble of conversation continued to fill the air, only subsiding a little when Congresswoman Mary Norton presented the credentials committee's report...
...platform makers had overlooked the determination of the Northerners, whose volatile Americans for Democratic Action had drafted a minority report. A.D.A.'s spokesman was Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., 37, mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
...Harry Truman saw none of it. He had been shunted off to a stiflingly hot, concrete-floored room at the rear of the hall, where he held court for visitors. Jimmy Roosevelt and Chicago's ex-Mayor Ed Kelly dropped by, as did New , York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer. Only one top-drawer Southerner showed up: Alabama's Senator John Sparkman. But Harry Truman was not sore at anybody. To a friend, he said: "They may be mad at me, but I'm not mad at them. I believe in Christ...
State of Mind traces the parabolic development of the Boston mind-from Puritan bedrock to the brilliant flights of the Emersonian era, and towards the final settling in the dreary marshes of the Mayor Curley epoch. The book ends on "the late George Apley's" symptomatic, harassed query about "a certain doctor named Sigmund Freud," who seemed to proper Bostonians a latter-day Emblem of Hell...