Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted the work done promptly. The Dodgers, then, would build a stadium. They would expect a couple of consecutive 99-year leases on the land at $1 a year, and they intended to pay no taxes. There were numerous other demands. But if the O'Malley ultimatum dismayed Mayor Poulson, he gave no sign. He simply took the paper back home and turned it over to the bright young men he has hired to mind the store...
...Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson promptly set about converting Walter's anchor to windward into a permanent mooring. Gathering up half his city government, Poulson trailed the Dodger president to the Dodgers' spring training camp at Vero Beach, Fla. A loud, impulsive man who manages to give the impression of enjoying himself hugely without quite understanding what is going on, Norris Poulson began to wave his arms wildly and spout promises the moment he met O'Malley. With all the sentimentality of a process server, Walter stopped the harangue by handing the mayor a paper. Somehow, Walter...
Then he met with Mayor Poulson's brain trust. Los Angeles, he learned to his dismay, was not about to give away Chavez Ravine on O'Malley's terms. "The thing got more and more confusing," he admits. "I finally asked, 'Well, who's the big guy out here? Who do I have to deal with...
...seemed anarchy to Walter, too. Not only were the mayor's boys telling him to tone down his demands, there was some active and growing opposition to letting him into Chavez Ravine...
...teams went West. The cost of accommodating only one California club would have been prohibitive. O'Malley had already picked out his patsy. Horace Stoneham's New York Giants were going broke up in the Polo Grounds. O'Malley simply called San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher, invited him to New York and introduced him to Horace...