Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close look at the man whom Berliners hail as a worthy successor to the late, great Mayor Ernst Reuter (whose bust appears behind Brandt in this week's cover picture), TIME called on John Mecklin, chief of the Bonn bureau, and Correspondent
...candidate waiting in the wings: Bert Thomas Combs, 47, onetime state Supreme Court judge who barely lost to Chandler himself in the 1955 gubernatorial primary. But long before Clements got Combs launched, the anti-Chandler field got crowded by the gubernatorial announcement of Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, onetime Louisville mayor (1941-45), and personal campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson in 1952. Backed by the Stevenson-prone Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, Wyatt was too much of a city egghead to suit Clements' plans...
...Mayor Clough (rhymes with tough) suddenly began lambasting everyone and everything in sight, from the United Fund charity ("a legalized racket") to the highly prized local University of Texas Medical School ("a bunch of quacks"). He attempted, unsuccessfully, to cover up a $40,000 shortage of city funds, and two months ago he drove a citizen from city hall at pistol point...
Last week Galveston went to the polls, cast its vote in favor of the bad old days. In again as mayor, with a 651-vote plurality: beefy, convivial Herbie Cartwright, 44, who did nothing to contradict the quietly spread word that vice might be revived again. Clough, 68, who ran a poor third in the four-way race, was rebuffed but undaunted. Said he: "I am going to sit on the sidelines and watch the people suffer for their mistake. May God have mercy on Galveston...
...mayor of Berlin, Willy Brandt has duties no ordinary mayor has-protocol responsibilities as the head of a quasi-autonomous state, and the responsibility for liaison with Allied commanders in the city. He also has a unique set of problems. According to East German officials, some 48 Western "terror," espionage and propaganda organizations operate out of West Berlin. Inevitably, their endless, shadowy war with the 60,000 Communist agents operating out of East Germany creates clamorous incidents in West Berlin, exposes the city to endless complaints from Moscow. Willy, like most Berliners, has come to regard some of the underground...