Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With no political dexterity at all, the U.S. military government authorities on Okinawa moved two months ago to remove a political irritant-skinny little pro-Communist Kamejiro Senaga, mayor of Okinawa's capital and chief city, Naha. The method: Lieut. General James E. Moore, U.S. High Commissioner, rewrote Naha's laws to permit the city assembly's conservative majority to oust the mayor on a vote of no confidence, then effectively barred his re-election by decreeing that no convicted felons could hold office (Senaga was jailed by the U.S. authorities in 1954 for harboring a Japanese...
Last week the U.S. authorities reaped the consequences of their ineptness as 70,000 Naha citizens clacked briskly to the polls on wooden geta to choose a new mayor. Both candidates were anti-American, and the winner was chosen chiefly because he was more anti-American than his rival...
...leanings. In the campaign, even Businessman Taira charged that "the Americans are trampling on the will of the people." As for Left-Winger Kaneshi, he called on the electorate to "avenge Senaga." Much of the time, Kaneshi sat smirking nervously at the back of his own platform while ex-Mayor Senaga hailed him as "a Sputnik," denounced "American oppression," and gleefully boasted that "Russia now has a weapon which can blow up the White House in Washington...
...Senator from West Virginia, onetime Representative and governor whose acid-tongued criticism and flowery eulogies became congressional legends; of cancer., after long illness; in Bethesda. Md. A fiery New Dealer, Neely served (since 1949) as chairman of the Senate's District of Columbia Committee (Washington's "unofficial mayor"). Republican Governor Cecil H. Underwood's expected appointment of a successor to Neely's Senate seat will reduce the Senate's Democratic majority from...
...open-air pushcart markets of New York will soon be extinct, according to Markets Commissioner Masciarelli. As a part of Mayor Wagner's economy drive, curbside vending, which costs the City more than it brings in, is to be eliminated...