Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps his most important caller was Minneapolis' cocky, fast-talking Democratic Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey, who is thinking of running for the Senate against Joe Ball but would not mind ending up as Harry Truman's running mate. He said that the President should get out and show himself to the people...
Priorities & Ear Muffs. The worst shortage was in oil. It affected the entire East, and New York City in particular. With thousands of New Yorkers heatless, Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered oilmen to put deliveries on a priority basis, giving first call to homes, apartment buildings and hotels. The Navy sent 40 of its tankers into civilian service and even dipped into its own oil reserves to relieve distress in some areas. The Commerce Department cut oil and gasoline exports...
...this week as he squared off with Earl for the runoff election on Feb. 24. Earl Long had started out by beating Sam Jones in the primaries in 1940, but Jones had nipped him in the runoff. Jones' followers, who included "clean government" men like New Orleans' Mayor deLesseps ("Chep") Morrison, pulled themselves together for "a fight that has got to be made...
Lamont workmen used blowtorches. Mayor Curley used MIT's flame, throwers, Boston used every available street cleaner and a condescending reporter from the Globe. The railroads used well-paid volunteers from Harvard...
...banned by the New York Supreme Court from trading in securities in New York. Four years later he turned up as "a war contract broker" in Washington's famed "House on R Street" inquiry (TIME, May 15, 1943). In 1944 New York City's late Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia accused him of being the front man for Racketeer Irving (Waxey Gordon) Wexler in deals in war surplus goods...