Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor Curley could be thankful...
...politics. Only the tragic situation of my country and my admiration for General de Gaulle persuaded me-a university professor-to accept the post of mayor of Marseille. But now I'm here and I'm here to stay; violence and threats will not change that...
...five Popular Republicans) had merely let the decree go through. Nevertheless Red labor leaders summoned workers to the city hall to demonstrate against the fare increase. Two days later, the new council was having its first plenary session at the City Hall. Glowering, stocky Jean Cristofol, the ousted Red mayor, fixed a baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw a chair at the mayor. A woman Socialist thereupon spattered Communist Cristofol...
Denver citizens were to vote on a new city charter. Almost everybody, apparently, was for it: the Post, the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News (Denver's only other daily), young Mayor Quigg Newton, the Chamber of Commerce, the unions. The charter's main opponents: 61year-old Columnist Gustin, the city auditor and a group of political "outs...
Duffy v. Dreadnought. Newark, which recently agreed to lease its port facilities to the Port of New York Authority (TIME, Nov. 3) for an $11,000,000 development program, thought the New Mex would block the program by tying up pier space. So Newark's Mayor Vincent Joseph Murphy, egged on by the local press, ordered out the city's two fire boats, Michael P. Duffy and William J. Brennan, to block the port's narrow entrance...