Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats are ready to fight for the right to take on shaky Republican Governor C. William O'Neill in Ohio's 1958 gubernatorial elections, among them former Price Stabilization Boss and onetime Toledo Mayor (1948-50) Mike Di Salle, who has slimmed down (from 215 Ibs. to 184 Ibs.) and whisked off his mustache. But Di Salle and all the other Democratic hopefuls have themselves been shaken by a persistent report that Ohio's Democratic kingfish, the unbeatable Frank Lausche, dislikes the U.S. Senate, may come home to run for governor the seventh time. Lausche...
...Party last month managed to win 13 out of 32 seats in Singapore's first municipal elections, while Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party could salvage only four. This victory enabled the P.A.P. to install a Malacca-born, Australian-educated Chinese named Ong Eng Guan as mayor. P.A.P. Boss Lee Kuan Yew continues to insist loudly that his party is non-"Communist. But Mayor Ong is less committal. Asked if he thought Singapore was threatened by Communism, Ong replied: "I can't answer that because the committee would not like...
...verge of a new cinemacting career, Sloan Simpson, erstwhile TV Chit-chatter and ex-wife of New York City's onetime Mayor William O'Dwyer, freshened her makeup while lounging provocatively in a barber's chair at a Bronx (N.Y.) movie studio. Sloan's first movie role will be as a cop's wife in an "it-could-happen-to-you" dope opera titled The Pusher, now in production...
...fervent campaign to sell the small car to the U.S., Romney has missed no chance to trumpet his cause. Last week he got another chance-at the expense of New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner. The mayor sternly called on Detroit to quit making cars bigger, and in letters to carmakers decried the "continuing burdens" that big cars are placing on cities. In the same space, parking lots can handle 15% fewer cars than ten years ago, said he, while prewar garages handle 40% less...
...mayor Edward J. Sullivan was one of the councilors opposing DeGuglielmo and defending the police. He said that the police know The Prowler's identity and have visited his hangout several times, but that the man, who broke into several Cambridge homes recently, has eluded them on each occasion and now has skipped town...