Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rudolf Paul, Minister President of Thuringia; Theodor Plivier, longtime Communist writer, whose book called Stalingrad won him Soviet kudos; Jena's Mayor Heinrich Mertens; Mühlhausen's Mayor Heinrich Stuecker; Mine Director Hans Grassman, who had bossed four Soviet workings in Saxony, where 10,000 conscripted Germans were mining for uranium...
Antibes' money-minded Mayor Jean Pastour, who despised Picasso's work but recognized its market value, had raised the admission price to the castle from five to 30 francs. Last week's visitors got their 30 francs' worth: they found 65-year-old Picasso himself pacing before his pictures, looking for all the world like an aging lifeguard...
...immigrants from Italy. But his father, a musician named Achille LaGuardia, joined the U.S. Army and became bandmaster of the 11th Infantry Regiment; Fiorello's boyhood was spent in Arizona Army posts. It was a good boyhood. He learned music (all his life he worshiped opera, and as mayor he took delight in leading bands and orchestras). He also rode half-wild range horses and learned early that brashness could be a substitute for size...
Comeback. Actually, it had just begun. When the Seabury Investigation forced dapper Jimmy Walker out of New York's City Hall, a Fusion Party was born and Fiorello LaGuardia, its candidate for mayor, rode noisily into the third biggest political job in the land. On election night, although he had not yet taken office and had no real authority, he ordered police to send 400 patrol wagons out to bring voting machines to police headquarters-he suspected Tammany henchmen of trying to alter the vote for comptroller. The police obeyed, and the Fusion candidate won. In the next twelve...
Monuments. But he could be demure, quiet, kindly. He was ferociously honest and recklessly fearless. He was the best mayor New York ever had, and he left great monuments...