Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia's Racist Senator Herman Talmadge theorized that the bombing might be a plot of Communists, but Atlanta's 68-year-old Mayor William B. Hartsfield did not need to wait for his police to act before he knew the real criminals: "Every political rabble-rouser is the godfather of these cross burners and dynamiters who sneak about in the dark." Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill: "Let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish...
...Mayor Fernand Lefort called in the Association of Flea Market Merchants, showed off designs for a handsome new Flea Market of 1,000 booths-even, for old times' sake, arranged in a labyrinth pattern of circling passageways, yet leaving room for five new housing blocks...
...bestseller about the bad old days when political machines were run on blarney, graft, openhanded charity and shamrock oil, and about the last of the great Irish-American city bosses in the grand, 19th century manner-a man, the author protests, who is not to be confused with ex-Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston...
Actor Tracy, who bears a certain physical resemblance to Mayor Curley in his political prime, plays the part with more Celtic charm than a carload of leprechauns. The Last Hurrah could easily become one of the biggest sentimental successes since Going My Way left the public quivering like one vast harp...
...former boss, Kaie Deei, a part-Egyptian, part-Zulu agent, who specialized in Negroes, Orientals and American Indians). Agent Rivers is finding the white man's burden heavy. Biggest problem: Asians tend to act with rigidity and gliding formalism. To fill the part of Sammy Fong, unofficial mayor of Chinatown, Flower Drum's Casting Director Ed Blum finally had to cross the color line and hire Manhattan Comedian Larry Storch. "The part calls for a sharpie," says Blum, "and the Orientals can't play it. Smoothie, yes; sharpie, no." Otherwise, Blum's cast...