Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss Jake Arvey had wanted to line up a more seasoned vote-getting combination. But Senator Scott Lucas had refused to run for the governorship; as the Senate's only Midwestern Democrat, he thought he could do his party more good in Washington. Chicago's able Businessman-Mayor Martin Kennelly had also turned down the governorship post...
Last week the city council met to choose a new mayor from among its own members. There was little doubt that the job would go to a Democrat named Albert D. Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
When the one-millionth G.I. left Britain's Southampton for Normandy after Dday, wartime Mayor Rex Stranger was on the pier to bid him goodbye. The mayor learned then that Sergeant Paul S. Shinier hailed from a town called Chambersburg in Pennsylvania, that he had left behind him a young wife named Marian and a two-year-old daughter. At the end of their chat Mayor Stranger promised that if anything should happen to the G.I., he would see that the widow and child in Chambersburg were cared...
Sergeant Paul Shimer was killed in action in the ETO. Last May, after his term as mayor was up, Rex Stranger hurried to the U.S. and from his own pocket took $3,000 to establish a trust fund for the education of little Patricia Ann Shimer. Grateful citizens of Chambersburg promptly acknowledged the kindness by raising another $3,000 for food for the rationed children of Southampton; the fruit growers of Franklin County stepped forward with the promise of 600 bushels of apples to add to the gift...
Last week, ex-Mayor Stranger was back home again. With him and the new mayor, Frank Dibben, some of Southampton's 25,000 school children were lined up in the Bassett Green schoolyard (see cut) to wish a merry Christmas to far-off Chambersburg and to collect their share (five apiece) of the ripe, red-cheeked Pennsylvania apples that tasted as sweet as a promise made and kept...