Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, he went to a police station to bail out one of his truck drivers who had been arrested for reckless driving. The police refused to accept his check for $100. This made Lundy so mad at the city administration that he resolved then & there to run for mayor...
Milwaukee also elected a new mayor last week: slim, young (35) Frank Zeidler, a Socialist. He will be the town's third Socialist mayor in 38 years and the second Zeidler in eight. In 1940, his late brother Carl, a conservative nonpartisan, unseated dour Daniel W. Hoan, who had been Milwaukee's Socialist mayor for 24 years. Frank Zeidler's victory did not mean that old-line Socialists had taken over the town again. His party failed to win any other city office...
...Chicago Tribune gave WGN-TV, its new television station (Chicago's second), a razzle-dazzle opening. Boss Bertie McCormick, laid up with a cold, had to watch the ceremonies on the big screen at his Wheaton estate; but Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, Mayor Kennelly and Governor Green turned up at the studio to blow congratulatory kisses...
...THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEELING that the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized to notify the Publisher and Editor of "Time" that said article is untrue so far as the City of Wheeling is concerned. . . . Wheeling...
Public Record, As a prosecutor, he swept up shoals of bootleggers, con men, grifters, oil stock swindlers, bunco artists; jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft; jailed the Alameda mayor, city manager, and councilmen for bribery and theft of public funds; became the recognized legislative spokesman for the state's 58 district attorneys. None of his convictions was ever reversed after appeal to higher courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries...