Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegation, which includes Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy and City Manager James L. Sullivan, also plans to travel to Washington, D.C. to present a list of questions about the long-range impact of the Red Line extension to Urban Mass Transit Authority (UMTA) officials...
Moscone, who had been mayor of San Francisco since 1975, and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, were allegedly shot by disgruntled former city employee Dan White...
...FRANCISCO--Funeral services were held yesterday for George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco who was murdered Monday...
...civil rights activist and Marxist, he started building a largely black congregation in the late 1960s. A few years later, he ruled a string of communes from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Rigidly disciplined, they turned out diligent workers on election day to help Democratic candidates. In gratitude, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed Jones chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1975, and many of the cultists were placed in city and county jobs...
Residual gallantries survive all over the society, but it takes something of an individualist to practice them. Mrs. Robert Wagner, wife of the former mayor of New York, laments that the thank-you note after a party is becoming rarer and rarer. "In the olden days," she says, "you wrote automatically. The notes were done by rote and said nothing. Now they may be fewer, but they mean more." Dr. Alfred Messer of Atlanta cheerfully tells a story of going to eat lunch at his hospital's dining room some months ago. "I instinctively stood up to hold the chair...