Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, on so-called nuisance taxes: "I call them sin taxes, you know, on cigarettes, liquor, gambling. The reason they can pass sin taxes is that the sinners aren't organized. How many drinkers are organized...
...scathing on the subject of Lyndon Johnson. As Vice President, L.B.J. was sent by Kennedy to Berlin to demonstrate American concern. There was no way of telling that from Johnson's trip. Avoiding the Wall, the Vice President seemed to be mainly interested in gathering souvenirs. "Say, Mr. Mayor," he addressed Willy Brandt, "where did you get those spiffy shoes? I want a pair just like them." Brandt replied that he would be glad to oblige, but it was Sun day and the store was closed. The Vice President remonstrated: "What was that you said the other...
...Cooper, the founder of the Harvard Black Students Association and current mayor of Pritchard, Alabama, said he received a letter from Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of law, yesterday, "deploring the decision of the conference committee to honor Abdul-Assiz...
...zoning dispute is only one gripe in a litany of city complaints against the University. Six city councilors, including the mayor of Cambridge, Thomas W. Danehy, fired off a letter late last month to members of the Board of Overseers, asking for their help in "reducing the tensions" between the city and the University...
...when a horrified friend showed some pipes and smoking paraphernalia he had found in his twelve-year-old son's bureau to City Councilor Charles Medeiros. "I had thought those things were illegal," Medeiros said. He proposed an ordinance, which passed unanimously, requiring such stores to get licenses. Mayor Gary Lynch, who reluctantly signed the law, commented, "It strikes me as cutting off the branches instead of the roots...