Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until a short time before election did Boss Flynn appear to realize that Isacson was making dangerous inroads. He called on New York's ailing Mayor Bill O'Dwyer and Eleanor Roosevelt to prop up Propper. The best O'Dwyer could do was appeal to Wallace to come back to the Democratic Party. For his final rally, Isacson drew an overflow crowd of 8,500, who came to hear Wallace and such other notables of the far left as Singer Paul Robeson and Congressman Vito Marcantonio. At another rally the same night Prizefighter Champion Joe Louis, contributed...
...shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief) and Hubert Humphrey (upcoming Minneapolis Mayor) held that the wording must go easy; they blistered committee opponents such as writer Robert Bendiner of The Nation. On the floor Harvard Liberal Union delegates touched off a successful campaign to attack specifically, through amendment to the committee report, "weak appointments" by Truman and his failure to "mobilize full...
...Walter Reuther at that; Reuther's biting oratory forced this caricature of an oligarch to struggle hard, through fumbling fighting improvisations upon the stale prepared text, for the most "militant" declaration at unionism's dark hour. Labor moguls and a troupe of politicians on the way up typitied by Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Minneapolis and City Council President George Edwards of Detroit provided for ADA the new aspect of sleeves-rolled-up savvy...
...York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, 57, saw spots, felt faint, asked his hospital commissioner for advice. The advice: slow down. A possible alternative: coronary thrombosis. "Is that the thing," inquired the Mayor, "that blows you over?" He was told that it is. "It's a good thing to know," said he, and proceeded to charge around much as usual...
Cambridge's legislative carnival is now rocketing into its seventh fun-packed week and still no Mayor. With 841 sterile ballots to their credit since January 5th, the nine-man City Council is eagerly looking forward to the thousand mark, at which time, it is reported, each member will receive a complimentary copy of "Laughing Gas" by Dr. O. H. Schneiderman, anesthetist at Bregman Memorial Hospital...