Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bring 'Em Back Alive. In Syracuse, N.Y., Mayor Frank J. Costello* bit his lip and disclosed how things were at the zoo: the leopard had been there 20 years, and was secondhand at that; the jaguar had bitten off the leopard's tail; the lion not only had cataracts but was sharing his den with rabbits...
...candidates' paths met at Cascade Locks, where Mayor Russel Nichols, a Dewey rooter, had arranged a turnout for his man. But Dewey arrived to find that Harold Stassen had boldly stolen his meeting. Stassen was busily autographing campaign leaflets. Newsreel cameramen, hoping for shots of the candidates together, had backed a truck across the road to make sure that Dewey would stop...
...Dewey bus approached cautiously. Then, on orders from Dewey, it squeezed through between curb and truck and zoomed on past as the disappointed crowd booed. Mayor Nichols ripped the Dewey button from his lapel and replaced it with two Stassen buttons. "This burns me up," he declaimed. "Dewey was pretty small." Gloated Stassen: "Many interesting things have happened on the old Oregon Trail." One interesting fact: the odds on the primary results had dropped from 2-1 in Stassen's favor to even money...
When Roger Dearborn Lapham stepped down as mayor of San Francisco last January (his campaign pledge had been "One Term Only"), he let it be known that he intended to play plenty of golf (he used to shoot in the low 703) and take a three-month trip to Europe. But last week 64-year-old Roger Lapham decided to leave his clubs in the locker room and forswear the Grand Tour. The reason: Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman had tapped him for chief of ECA's $338 million China aid mission. It was one of the toughest jobs...
...Hoffman was chiefly impressed with his administrative talents. He had been with Herbert Hoover's American Relief Administration after World War I, was called to Washington on the eve of World War II to serve on the National Defense Mediation Board, later on the War Labor Board. As mayor, he had put San Francisco's needs ahead of politics, had rammed through city purchase (for $7,500,000) of the Market Street Railway. He had been president, later board chairman, of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. for 18 years...