Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor John Lindsay. His victory four years ago was a sensation, and his re-election gives new hope for the future...
CURLEY, who served as Boston's mayor from 1914-1918, 22-26, and 30-34, was convicted for attempting to cheat the Civil Service Commission before he even began his political career. It turned out to be the best thing that ever happened...
...Curiev still needed the big move the impressive maneuver in order to qualify for deification. In July, 1947, as Boston's mayor again, he pulled...
...noise, and the Federal Government only last July took its first small step toward quiet. As a condition of getting or keeping federal contracts, companies must follow new Department of Labor rules controlling excessive noise in factories. So far, Baron's lobbying in New York helped persuade Mayor John Lindsay to appoint a special task force on noise control. Its recommendations include such specific-and belated-moves as a crackdown on rumbling trucks and roaring construction equipment...
George Constantin Cotzias fled from his Nazi-occupied homeland in 1941 and resolved to get a medical education in the U.S. Turned down by seven schools, he took the advice of his father, a former mayor of Athens: "If you don't get what you want at first, try for something better." So young Cotzias went after the best, was accepted at Harvard Medical School-probably, Cotzias suggests, because no one there minded his fractured English-and was graduated cum laude. After training in neurology at the top places, Massachusetts General and Rockefeller University hospitals, Dr. Cotzias became...