Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excitement of choosing Tom Dewey over Harold Stassen (see Republicans), Portland voters did not forget that they were also electing a mayor. Last week they rose up against flashy, cigar-chewing Earl Riley, who had been picked by the OWI as a "typical U.S. mayor" and sent on a wartime mission to Britain (TIME, Sept. 13, 1943). In Riley's place they named-for the first time in the city's history-a woman...
Riley, who has been mayor for eight years, had been charged by Portland's influential City Club with negligence in stamping out vice in the Rose City. Mrs. Lee had promised: "I will enforce...
Runner from the East. Inside the church, Frankfurt's mayor received relay runners with greetings from all parts of occupied Germany. One had come all the way from Berlin, but he was not even out of breath. The Russians had forbidden him to run through the streets in their sector; so he had taken the subway to the airport and flown the rest...
Then his intense speech slowed; his figure swayed. Officials supported him before he fell. He was carried out, his notes still clutched in his chalk-white hands. Mayor Kolb explained that the speaker was weak after a serious operation...
...territory without a formidable escort. Quirino made a quick but thorough tour of the disturbed areas, without fanfare and with no other vehicle than his own sleek Packard. In broiling La Paz, he spotted a stooped little man whom he himself, when Secretary of the Interior, had discharged as mayor (for insubordination) twelve years before. From the man's cartridge belt dangled a huge pistol...