Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daytona Beach, when a National Airlines attendant last week yelled angrily for Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy to hustle aboard or get left in Florida, Mayor J. Hart Long said pointedly: "He doesn't have much respect for the future President of the U.S., does he?" To a Young Democrats' convention in Reno a fortnight before, University of Minnesota Coed Geri Storm brought word from her 58 sorority sisters: "Every girl told me to give Senator Kennedy all her love and to tell him they would all vote for him." At the University of Kansas, Kennedy...
...Grandfather Pat Kennedy, a saloonkeeper, was the Democratic leader of Ward One in East Boston, a state representative and state senator, an associate of such lights as "Diamond Jim" Timilty, the Roxbury boss, and Smiling Jim Donovan of the South End. Grandfather Fitzgerald was a U.S. Congressman and twice mayor of Boston. Honey Fitz's theme song was Sweet Adeline, his political creed was based on the sound premise that the strength of textile-making New England depended on everybody's wearing long woolen underwear, and he thought of himself as "the last honest mayor Boston ever...
...Navy, Jack Kennedy hooked up with International News Service, covered the San Francisco founding session of the United Nations and the Potsdam conference-and decided to run for the Massachusetts Eleventh District congressional seat being vacated by indestructible James Michael Curley, who had just been elected mayor of Boston again...
...vote of five to four, with Mayor Edward J. Sullivan casting the decisive ballot, the Council passed the second reading of the plan. John Briston Sullivan, defeated candidate for the School Committee, is sponsoring the multi-million dollar proposal...
Hizzoner, the Mayor, continued. ". . .and my ninth point, encourage neighborhood awareness. . .the disgraceful condition of. . .taxpayers' money. . .all cooperation. . .this historic moment. . . all pull together . . . and I conclude (crowd cheers). . .thank...