Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striped denim uniform of a subway trainman appeared in the Mayor's office of the City of New York early last Tuesday morning, before the regular business hours. Theodore Loos, president of the Motorman's Benevolent Association, announced that the men on the IND were going to stage a wildcat strike at 5 a.m. the next morning...
...Mayor Senaga lost no time in making the U.S. occupation authorities miserable. Though the money spent by the U.S. on its base has made Okinawans rich beyond their modest dreams, there is resentment that the U.S. has reserved 21% of the arable land for U.S. use, planted on it jet runways, housing for 40,000 military people, and three golf courses. The Okinawan base is crucial to the West's Pacific defenses, and the U.S. has made it clear that it has no intention of turning over administration to local authorities "in the foreseeable future." Senaga played on these...
Lost Trousers. But unseating Mayor Senaga proved a more difficult task than either U.S. military authorities or the Okinawan businessmen reckoned. Last summer, when the anti-Senaga city assembly rapped him with a no-confidence vote, Senaga dissolved the assembly and called new elections, in which he increased his supporters in the 30-man assembly from six to twelve...
Jeers & Contempt. Last week, after Okinawa's High Court and the Ryukyus legislature refused to interfere, Army Lieut. General James E. Moore, the U.S. High Commissioner, intervened. Acting nominally on an appeal by 24 of Okinawa's 64 mayors, he decreed a change in the assembly's bylaws to allow a no-confidence vote if a simple majority is present. He thoughtfully added a new electoral regulation barring "convicted felons" from holding public office-which effectively barred Senaga from seeking reelection. When the assemblymen gathered at Naha's city hall and voted the mayor...
...diffident in manner. But he went quickly and quietly about the business of learning how to mine on the veld and deal with figures in the office. Ten years later, the citizens of Kimberley, home of five of the world's greatest diamond mines, elected him mayor...