Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blotters printed on credit and a borrowed telephone, Di Salle soon worked up a brisk business to support his wife and still keep on at law school. Di Salle finished law school (at 23), but had a dispute with the dean. "It was all a question of degree," says Mike. "I didn't get it." (Now that he has come up in the world and the law school has a new dean, Di Salle will soon get a retroactive law diploma.) Then with his wife and his first daughter, Antoinette, Mike headed back to Toledo and moved in with...
...bottom of the Depression, and to make matters worse, father Di Salle had lost his job. To keep the family in spaghetti and tomato paste, Tony Di Salle started a small metal-plating business in the garage. Surprisingly, it prospered (and today grosses over $1,000,000 a year). Mike himself progressed more fitfully than the backyard business. Neither commerce nor the law satisfied him. "Some kids like to be cop," Mike's father once explained, "some kids like to be fireman. But Mike-he wants to be the big politeesh...
...Mike practiced law sporadically, taught commercial law briefly at a Catholic high school, nibbled at the first political fare he could find-some insignificant but educational jobs with the federal Home Owners' Loan Corp. and a job in Toledo's municipal law department. What he yearned for was political office. After one false start, he made it-a term in the state legislature. In 1941, he was elected to the Toledo city council and made himself so popular he was re-elected four times. For two terms, he also served as vice mayor...
...cocoon. He polished up the old idea of a labor peace committee, called it the Toledo Citizens' Labor-Management Committee, and made it an outfit which piloted industrial Toledo through the reconversion period with a minimum of strikes-and also began to make Mike Di Salle's name known throughout the state and in many parts of the U.S. On at least one occasion, the vice mayor showed he had courage enough to sacrifice votes to principle. He thought Toledo needed a city income tax to pull itself out of a financial hole; the town's potent...
...Name Is Mike. But he soon snapped back. In 1947, Toledo elected him mayor. Under the city manager plan, it was really a ceremonial post, but Di Salle quickly converted it into a 14-hour-a-day career. He bounced around town like a loose basketball to attend meetings, sport events and dinners, perform good deeds and hear complaints. Borrowing from one of his political idols, the late Fiorello La Guardia, he would don a whitewing's uniform and sweep a street or peer owlishly from a Toledo newspaper in Indian headdress. When Michael of Rumania stopped at Toledo...