Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neil supplemented his impressions of four years' residence in the city ("Like most Westerners, I'm surprised at how much I do like it") by visiting sections he had missed. One of Banks's assignments was to accompany O'Dwyer through a mayor's typical day. He joined the Mayor at the executive mansion bright and early (9 a.m.) one morning and crept away to bed 15 hours later. At that juncture O'Dwyer had settled down to read a book on traffic congestion in 2nd Century Rome...
...Neil and Mrs. Drucker also spent an evening with O'Dwyer at Gracie Mansion, which was being redecorated (one room, according to O'Dwyer, looked "like a carload of false teeth"), and when they left at midnight the Mayor uttered the words from which the story's cover caption was taken. Said he: "Do whatever you like with me in your story, but give New York a break. I love it. It's a hell of a town...
...Lyndon's home town) wowed the citizenry. Campaign workers raced ahead in cars to meeting places, strewing literature along the way. Johnson hovered over small towns, urging people to follow him. Over Forney he cried: "How's the gang in Adams' drugstore?" In Omaha he took Mayor Jack Vaughn, a young exmarine, up for a ride, gave him a chance to make a political speech...
...fight continues. One day Sokolovsky proclaimed Berlin an integral part of the Soviet zone. On the same day, at an emergency session of the City Assembly, plucky Mayor Louise Schroeder introduced a resolution saying that Berlin belonged to all four occupation powers. Russian observers watched grimly as the resolution was overwhelmingly passed. Said Kurt Lansberg, a Christian Democratic history professor: "Anyone who leaves Berlin is a traitor...
...killing at Esperanza followed an incident at Zacatelco in nearby Tlaxcala state. There, Bishop Ruesga told newsmen, the Catholic mayor had told local citizens to quit baiting Evangelistas. On the street a priest upbraided the mayor and got a rough answer. Someone in the gathering crowd pulled a gun, shot the mayor. By the time pistols were empty the mayor was dead, four Catholics and three Evangelistas had been wounded...