Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article discussing the fraud conviction of Congressman Charles C. Diggs (D., Mich.), which involved a staff salary kickback scheme [Dec. 4], Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit was quoted as saying, "I don't believe he [Diggs] did any thing dishonest, or anything that is not a common practice throughout the Congress." I must take issue with him on this...
...Mayor Coleman owes Congress and the people a sincere and immediate public apology for his irresponsible remarks...
...Teng helped set up a highly effective guerrilla force against the Japanese in North China. After Japan's surrender, the group continued its operations against Chiang's Nationalist armies. When the Communists took power in 1949, Teng served as the party boss of South China and the mayor of Chungking. Called to Peking in 1952, he held a variety of major posts, some of them simultaneously: Finance Minister, Secretary of the Central Committee, Vice Chairman of National Defense, Secretary-General of the Communist Party. In 1956 he was appointed to the Politburo's seven-man standing committee...
...mayor's foes did not buy the package, however. All day Friday, bankers, businessmen, economic consultants, the council and the mayor held meetings to try to find a compromise that would stave off default. As failure seemed imminent, Forbes offered a soothing prediction: "Come Saturday morning, the sun is going to shine, or it is going to snow." But as the city's credit rating plummets and outright bankruptcy looms, drastic cutbacks in all city services seem inevitable. Or, as Kucinich so aptly put it when a midnight deadline passed: "There will be six months of chaos for this...
...marched voters right to the polls, watched while they voted and then paid them on the spot within a few yards of election officials. Outside the polls, the vote-buyers kept "bird dogs" on patrol to make sure that everything went smoothly. At one poll, it was reported, Leesville Mayor Ralph McRae Jr. ordered onlookers to back away. When the FBI arrived because of complaints from the Wilson forces, the payoff center was moved to a dead-end street. There, under a towering pine (called, yes, the money tree), some $10,000 in cash was disbursed by two men while...