Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleeves, from the White House to Manhattan, to San Francisco, Des Moines and Pittsburgh. In San Francisco, demands for tickets to the Commonwealth Club's banquet were matching Franklin Roosevelt's historic appearance in 1932. Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom was booked solid for the mayor's lunch (and a visiting convention of dentists, with a prior booking for the ballroom, was not too sure it was going to give up its rights) and again for a dinner sponsored by the Economic Club...
...fire hoses turned on the mob marching on Central High last month; an explosion shattered Nalley's city-owned red station wagon parked outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district's administrative offices, blew out windows in a nearby Carmelite monastery where 14 nuns were asleep...
Notably absent from the CCA list are Mayor Thomas McNamara, elected last January with some CCA support, and Councillor Al Vellucci. Crane, DeGuglielmo, Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. Wise are currently members of the Council, while Edward Sullivan is a School Committeeman...
...desperate mayor of Sogne reinforced his police force (one man) with 40 others from the nearby city of Kristiansand, and the Sogne militia was alerted for the first time since the war. A battle of organists erupted briefly in the Lutheran church, with the aged local man reportedly being elbowed aside for a more accomplished player from Kristiansand. Back in the States, reporters tracked down Anne-Marie's uncle, Andrew Swenson. at whose Bronx home she stayed when she first came to the U.S. in 1956. A New York City mounted policeman. Uncle Andrew took a melancholy stance beside...
Just Deserts. Tallent's bedroom look cost him his majority on the Cabazon town council; it voted him out as mayor, although he kept his place on the council itself. It was L. D. Tallent who seized the initiative, forced a recall election of the council members, including himself. At high noon on election day last week, the temperature in Cabazon reached 110°. But resting beside his 40-ft., indoor swimming pool, Tallent was cool to the point of indifference. "I don't care if I win this election or not," he drawled...