Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Jug. Then, one morning, an Associated Press photographer named Murray Becker arrived in the Mayor's office wearing a mouse under one eye and holding his press card like a hand grenade. He had been waved to the curb by a cop for blowing his horn too loudly in traffic. Becker, who was driving his wife home from the New York Yankees' victory dinner, had made an attempt to square things. He told the policeman: "Look, officer, I'm a working newspaperman. We were in a hurry. I'm sorry...
That did it. By week's end, two of the cops were suspended without pay, the newspapers were black with the story, and Mayor Bill O'Dwyer had directed the prosecuting attorney to investigate the third policeman and to take the photographer's case to the grand jury. New York's Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander cried: "There must be no more assaults on our good people. . . . Courtesy must be the watchword of this department...
Louis Berthelot, aged 56, mayor of Belmont, offered one explanation of the temporary Communist success: "There are 190 registered votes in this commune. Fifty-six of them voted Communist at the last elections. With two or three exceptions, the 56 were all young men and women. Communism in the rural districts is the party of the fainéants (lazy no-goods). Young people here don't want to work any more; they don't want to work from dawn till sunset, as I did, and my father, and my grandfather. They don't want to bend...
...Sister-in-law of Newbold Morris, Fiorello La-Guardia's heir designate, who ran for Mayor of New York City in 1945 and was defeated by William O'Dwyer...
...After a trip to Mexico City and a weekend of sitting in Manhattan nightclubs, Barbara Jo Walker, 21-year-old "Miss America of 1947," finally got back home. Memphis' welcome filled her eyes with tears. There was a big parade, a luncheon with the mayor, a fashion show, a ball at which she danced with her fiancé, Intern John Hummel. Then Miss America went back to her studies at Memphis State College, her choir singing and her Methodist Sunday School class...