Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor of Colorado Springs, which lies on the plain below Pikes Peak, uncorked a magnificent scheme to build a tomb for Zeb Pike on the mountaintop he never reached. Colorado papers, scent ing another tourist attraction, played the story big; the Colorado delegation in Congress whooped it up. Said a Chamber of Commerce official: "If we can just get old Zeb and add him to the rest of the stuff we got here, it'll mean millions, boy, millions...
...East is not altogether effete, however: the Colorado Springs boosters had reckoned without the citizens of Sackets Harbor. Growled Mayor Carl M. Jackson: "General Pike's been buried here for more than a century, and we mean to keep him here...
Three Crimson athletes, Red Sox hurler Mickey Harris, a crew of Settlement House boxers, plus the Mayor of Cambridge will appear tonight at the Cambridge High and Latin School as part of Benefit Father and Son Sport Night to send a deserving student to college...
...last four leap years the Winnipeg Tribune had listed Garnet Coulter among the city's most eligible bachelors. He looked like a fixture. A man who enjoyed duck hunting and poker sessions with the boys, he was thought to be an impregnable singleton. Besides, Garnet Coulter, mayor since 1942, had a big city...
...week's end, in Rosemere, Quebec, with daughter Roberta Gail, 16, as maid of honor, Jessica Allan was married in dusty pink to Garnet Coulter in a blue-striped double-breasted. Mrs. Coulter told newsmen that she had no idea where the honeymoon would be spent, but the mayor had "quite a few problems" to attend to back home. In Winnipeg the City Council got set for a bang-up reception, cagily waited to see what the Coulters would like for a present...