Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unspoken Speech. Khrushchev's big jet swept into Los Angeles International Airport 5 hr. 27 min. later, sat down with a bounce. He padded down the bright aluminum ramp, his light-colored suit flapping, looked detached and almost dubious about leaving the plane. Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson stepped forward, handed out what was perhaps the briefest official greeting a U.S. city has ever given a visiting chief of state. Said Poulson: "We welcome you to Los Angeles, City of the Angels, the city where the impossible always happens." Khrushchev, who had the text of an arrival speech...
...Blasted anew at Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson "and the organizers" of a dinner in his honor Saturday night...
...this point another important leader in the Boston area likewise retired from office. The Reverend John Thornton Kirkland closed out 18 years as President of Harvard, amidst great financial embarrassment, and the Corporation looked for a new President with a mind for business. In the recently-retired Mayor they found a likely candidate. Although some Overseers opposed the nomination--Quincy was only the second non-clerical President in the College's 200-year history--he was elected January...
Throughout the 92 years of his life, Quincy always held to his definition of correct behavior. And this almost always brought him success, with the singular exception of his sojourn at Harvard. As a Congressman, reform mayor, historian, and Federalist leader he had few peers; when the Corporation selected Quincy as the fifteenth president of the College it was on the basis of a distinguished record of public service...
...form of government. Again Quincy's personal tenets conflicted with those of the majority; he felt the "pure democracy of the town meeting more suited to the character of the people of New England." However, he presided at the final Boston town meeting and would have been elected first mayor save for factional politics. Mayor Phillips retired at the end of a single year, and Quincy assumed the position...