Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town's third Socialist mayor in 38 years and the second Zeidler in eight. In 1940, his late brother Carl, a conservative nonpartisan, unseated dour Daniel W. Hoan, who had been Milwaukee's Socialist mayor for 24 years. Frank Zeidler's victory did not mean that old-line Socialists had taken over the town again. His party failed to win any other city office...
...that the conference must go on. Not all Latin-American countries were so sure. Finally the delegates made their decision: "To continue the important work with which the governments have charged them until they have fully completed the task . . . for which they were convened." But that did not necessarily mean that the conference would stay in ruined Bogotá. There was doubt that shamefaced Colombia could continue as host to the great meeting of the Americas...
...meet the outcry against differences in rates between different sections of the country,* the government ordered the Board of Transport Commissioners to look into the possibility of equalizing rates. It would take about a year, and in the end it would probably mean little, but on paper it looked nice. Furthermore, the survey might help to quiet Liberals from the Maritimes and the West who had joined the Opposition in protesting the new charges...
American's President Ralph S. Damon predicted that such developments would mean an improvement in earnings for the entire industry this year. Eastern's President Eddie Rickenbacker thought that the industry had already hit bottom, "and would be out of the red by fall...
Estimates made by the Union after scrutiny of the current Club-Union contract claim that, if the Club granted the demands in full, the cost would be $35,000 per year. This would mean a $5 increase in dues for each of the Club's 7,000 members, who now pay $60 yearly...