Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BESIDES covering the week's current news, TIME reaches into the states and cities of the U.S. to acquaint its readers with a cast of characters vital to the nation's community life. In November 1947, a TIME cover story reported on New Orleans' energetic Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison and his efforts to reform a tired old city. Subsequent progress reports showed New Orleans perking up under a cover of new buildings, bridges and commerce. On the strength of such accomplishments, Morrison last week was nominated for office for a fourth time-and now faces a crucial...
...Bainbridge's home-town boy has been doing too much in trying to overcome nature's oversights. The Griffin administration has spent half a million dollars for a 400-ft. pier, a transit shed and sulphur unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin (Bainbridge's mayor and Marv's paid state assistant) and six other Griffin administration officials, the governor is a stockholder in Caribe Transport Line, Inc., a company that will this spring take advantage of the facilities, put its one Honduran-flag freighter on a Bainbridge-to-Havana...
Quick Spirit. In Detroit, Mayor Louis C. Miriani opposed any plan to allow bars to stay open until 4 a.m., commented: "Any serious drinker should be able to get stiff...
Romney loudly agreed, then added a snapper. "Two Ramblers can be operated for the cost of the official car you are driving," he wired Wagner. The mayor rides in a seven-passenger 1955 Cadillac limousine, which is 19 ft. long v. 14.8 ft. of a Rambler American, costs $822 a year to maintain, not counting a chauffeur's annual salary of up to $4,865. Moreover, the city runs about 65 motor mastodons (Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers, Packards) for conveying top brass, as well as 149 medium ones (Buicks, Mercuries, Dodges, Pontiacs, De Sotos) for lesser lights...
Ride a Rambler, Romney urged Wagner, thereby "benefiting taxpayers as well as taking leadership in reducing traffic congestion and parking problems." But the mayor politely declined the offer from Romney to place three Ramblers at Wagner's disposal for test-driving...