Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friends in the German national association of manufacturers got him such jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed-Out Persons." Convinced after Stalingrad that Hitler must lose, Erhard drafted weighty studies of postwar economic prospects. One such report fell into the hands of Karl Goerdeler, the Leipzig mayor who was scheduled to take over the government if the plot to assassinate Hitler had succeeded in July 1944. Goerdeler's judgment: "The man must become minister...
Also present at the dinner, the second largest the Chamber of Commerce has held, were Edward J. Sullivan, Mayor of Cambridge, Samuel H. Beer, Chairman of the Department of Government, Dean Watson, and Edward L. Pattullo, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...serious business of the evening resumed as a little man puffing a used cigar came stamping up the aisle. We recognized him as the Mayor, who announced himself as "the big bad wolf of the Cambridge School Committee." He went on in this vein, advised citizens to "give Eddy your first place vote," and to vote yes on both referendums being considered...
...title page warns that Edwin O'Connor-author of The Last Hurrah, that uproarious and thinly disguised novel about Boston's raffish former Mayor Curley-intends Benjy as a "ferocious fairy tale." But readers can settle back unappre-hensively and enjoy this blithe-spirited, Thurberesque fable of a little boy who is too good for his own good. Along the way, longtime Bachelor O'Connor, 39, gets in some Wylie digs at Mummy. Though the fun sometimes wears thin, Benjy is a striking display of virtuosity, proving that its author can move with literary ease from Curley...
Follow the Leader. In Port Washington, Wis., city employees were administered their Asian-flu vaccinations in order of their importance to the community: garbage detail, rubbish sweepers, waterworks employees, sewage-disposal-plant worker, mayor, aldermen...