Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world of monolithic industrial unionism. The Motormen's Benevolent Association, made up of 80% of the subway motormen, had been fighting the domination of the city's transit system by a powerful professional Irishman, Transport Workers Union President Mike Quill, and the determination of the mayor's Transit Authority to deal only with politically powerful T.W.U. Last year, when the motormen challenged Quill in a fight, a state supreme court enjoined M.B.A. President Theodore Loos and three other leaders from striking. Last week, knowing full well that 1) he would go to jail, and 2) the state...
...thousands of workers and shoppers stayed away. Retailers moaned over million-dollar-a-day losses in sales. Newspapers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in pages of retail advertising. Macy's talked to Gimbels. Macy's President Jack Straus and Gimbels' President Bernard Gimbel conferred with Mayor Robert Wagner, posed for pictures as they rode the sometimes operative subway back to their monster department stores to prove that it could be done...
...Mayor Edward J. Sullivan has suggested that a board of Cambridge school officials and College professors be formed to consider the possibilities of improvements in the science and mathematics departments of the city's high schools...
...Protestants and Jews brought suit against the board of education for using "a tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to propagate their faith." Cause of the fuss: the board had approved the request of a citizens' committee, headed by Episcopal Mayor Jesse Collyer Jr., that a crèche be built on the lawn of the high school during the Christmas season...
...cramp it like an outgrown and tattered suit. Last week Idlewild got a sparkling array of new buildings eminently befitting its position as the aerial gateway to the U.S. While 2,000 guests looked on, New York's Governor Harriman, New Jersey's Governor Meyner and Mayor Wagner of New York City formally dedicated a $30 million, half-mile-long group of buildings-the first section of the new Terminal City that will cost $150 million and make Idlewild the world's most modern air terminal...