Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When fiery, brittle little Kamejiro Senaga was elected mayor of Naha last year, conservative Okinawan businessmen and U.S. authorities immediately went to work to unseat him. Senaga, an ex-journalist who ran a general store as a sideline to his job as mayor, had already served 18 months of a two-year jail sentence for harboring a wanted Japanese Communist, and was widely regarded as a Communist himself...
...action by faculty members came in a response to a ten-point program proposed by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan at the commencement of Cambridge's Rogers Block project...
...mayor later said that the response from the University has been very favorable. "I've discussed the matter with a few people," he asserted, "and I think we'll have all the cooperation we want from the University...
...Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy be brought into the campaign. "But she's a grandmother," objected Joe Kennedy. "That's all right," said Powers. "She's a Gold Star mother, the mother of a war hero and a Congressman, the wife of an ambassador, the daughter of a mayor and Congressman, the daughter-in-law of a state senator and representative. She's beautiful and she's a Kennedy. Let me have her." Powers got her, and in the last weeks Rose Kennedy traveled Massachusetts, carrying with her a complete change of wardrobe, from simple blouses...
...presidential candidacy that Jack Kennedy, ever since he first went to Capitol Hill, has carved himself out perhaps the most independent record of any member of Congress. Items: ¶ In 1947, Massachusetts' Senior Democratic Representative John McCormack handed Kennedy a petition for presidential clemency for Boston's Mayor Curley, who was just then being packed off to jail for mail fraud. Said McCormack: "Sign it." Kennedy refused-the only Democrat in the Massachusetts delegation to do so. McCormack neither forgave nor forgot, especially after Kennedy beat him for control of the state Democratic Committee in a preconvention...