Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rules are rules in Tennessee. When it came time to elect the mayor in Morrison, a hamlet of 547 people, no one wanted to run, but the county election commission insisted that an election be held anyway. No candidate emerged, but that was no problem: 43 out of 49 Morrison voters who showed up simply wrote the name of incumbent Mayor Harris Jacobs Jr. on the blank ballots. "We're not really backward or illiterate," explains Jacobs, a supervisor at an Air Force test facility who has served by default since 1969. "This is a nice little town with...
...mayor's release helps Begin get off the hook...
...Danehy (the outgoing mayor, you know...
...drug pushers and rapists if elected. A Baptist preacher exulted that Burke would create a "spiritual surge that will lift us into orbit for God." More down to earth, Committeeman Marty Tuchow explained: "Nostalgia is fine, but I have to be practical." Translation: Daley is buried, Byrne is mayor, and Byrne was for Burke. Twenty-four committeemen supported Burke...
DIED. Jerome Cavanagh, 51, Detroit's mayor from 1962 to 1970; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. Cavanagh rose to national prominence as an early champion of federal aid for decaying urban centers, but his political fortunes collapsed in the wake of his city's 1967 race riots...