Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paved with Good Intentions? In Woodcliff Lake, N.J., the mayor and council approved a proposal initiated by the Rev. James I. Opsal, changed the name of the street beside the site of his new Lutheran church from Dam Road to Church Road...
...same meeting, Richard C. Lee, Mayor of New Haven, Conn., deplored the lack of federal participation in housing programs and urban renewal. "The plight of the American city is the greatest domestic issue of the 20th century," he declared...
...waste their money paying the police commissioner a salary. Hoffa would be the police commissioner, so why waste the money?" Said the hard-boiled Daily News: "Public opinion will approve overwhelmingly any steps-repeat any steps-Commissioner Kennedy may take to crush this attempt." At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner found his voice, pounded his desk, called Feinstein's announcement "dastardly" and a "disgrace," promised to fire Feinstein from his city job if he tried to unionize the cops. New York Lawyer Godfrey P. Schmidt, one of the three monitors appointed by the U.S. District Court last year...
...over Berlin will not take place," proclaimed West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt last week. Though conceding that "many critical moments" must be expected in 1959, Socialist Brandt based his confident forecast on three successive victories won in the last weeks of 1958: 1) West Berlin's municipal election, in which Communists got less than 2% of the vote; 2) West Germany's demonstration of solid economic support to the beleaguered city; and 3) the Western Allies' united stand against Khrushchev's proposal for their withdrawal...
Landslide. In West Hollywood, Fla., voters elected a mayor, defeated on the same ballot a proposal to incorporate the town, with the result that Frank Polage is the new mayor of no place...