Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memphis, Mayor James J. Pleasants Jr. bent a dutiful ear toward Boss Crump, announced that the Negro and white races would have to see the Freedom Train separately. Freedom Train officials canceled the stop. But Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield refused to sanction such segregation: "I do not see how anybody can draw a color line through freedom and justice...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, faced with the prospect of boosting subway fares, told an audience: "[It] isn't my fault that the nickel got grey-headed and bald. It has lost its teeth and hair ... it can't buy anything any more...
Peter Zaremba is a Communist and the mayor of Szczecin, as Poles call once-German Stettin. At the dedication of his city's new hospital, we knelt next to each other in the front row of a large open-air congregation at a Catholic Mass...
When I asked Mayor Zaremba about Szczecin harbor, he said: "The Russians have any section of the port they want. Sometimes they move from one section to another...
...Chapputs of Michigan, Bobby Layne of Texas, and Tex Furse of Yal are among the gridiron stars who will attend the fete at which Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York is to be honorary chairman...