Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Defense Secretary McElroy hailed SAC's bomb-safety precautions, and while SAC investigated No. 876's bomb-locking system, it was Florence that best told Britain and Moscow the reasons why. Said Mayor David McLeod: "We all realize that we live in periled times, and our nation must be prepared to defend itself at a moment's notice. There are dangers in such defense, and this is one of the dangers...
...been frustrated by Georgia's archaic county-unit system, which keeps Democratic primaries and therefore state government firmly under the thumb of county woolhats. Four times suits to abolish the system have been instituted; each fizzled before the Supreme Court. Last week Atlanta's plucky Mayor William B. Hartsfield launched a determined fifth try. As Private Citizen Hartsfield, the mayor filed a Federal Court suit protesting that while Atlanta's Fulton County (pop. 473,572) contains 14% of Georgia's population, the county-unit system allows it only 1½% of the state's voting...
Rounding up Republican support for the primary election was something else again: Knight struggled for weeks against the growing power of San Francisco's G.O.P. Mayor George Christopher, who had his eyes set for the Senate, too. Last week in San Jose, at the showdown before the quasi-official Republican state assembly convention, Goodie took a handy edge toward full endorsement by his party for the primaries: the assembly's fact-finding committee handed him the whip by a vote of 29 to 7; all that remained was support by full vote of the entire assembly...
City, Mich., Douglas Waddell, 50, had a falling out with the mayor, resigned as city superintendent, clerk, treasurer, purchasing agent, board of appeals secretary, planning commission member, street administrator, pension board secretary-treasurer and representative on the county sanitation authority...
...Mayor Wagner named two mediators who are highly regarded by both sides: former Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman and Harry Uviller, impartial chairman of the dress industry. After their appointment, agreement was promptly reached this week on wages (a package increase of about 12%), leaving only the last details of contract enforcement to be worked out. Said Management Spokesman Nat Boriskin "We in the garment industry are one big happy family. Myself, I'm a happily married man, but even my wife and I have a few words every now and then...