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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explaining the proposed charter's provisions, Dean Landis said that under Plan E a city council elected by proportional representation would hire a city manager who would be in sole charge of appointments and in running the city services. The mayor, whom the council would choose from one of their number, would preside at council meetings and would be the ceremonial head of the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN LANDIS FEELS CERTAIN OF PLAN E ADOPTION IN NOVEMBER ELECTIONS | 9/28/1940 | See Source »

...returned from the war to help General Smedley Butler drive the prostitutes from New Orleans. Said he: "I didn't even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back in Wyoming, where he became the sole Democrat in the Legis lature, and was elected mayor of Laramie by nine votes. Later he taught law at Yale, did a few jobs for AAA and SEC on the side. He also wrote two books - Symbols of Government (1935), Folklore of Caitalism (1937) - which combined a rigorous political iconoclasm with a good deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Thurman's Kampf | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...determines who shall live free or in prison. He heads the Ministry of Government (Interior), which now includes the Ministry of Communications, and so controls the post office, telephone, telegraph and cable systems. He heads the Falange Española Tradicionalista and so bosses Spain's sole political party, its 2,000,000 members, 800,000 associated female Falangistas and 600,000 Falange youths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Verge of Battle | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...hating William Leonard Laurence, able science editor of the New York Times. Armed with a charter from A. F. of L. (which the Guild left to join C. I. O. in 1937), Rebel Laurence promptly put in a claim with Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger to have his union designated sole bargaining agent for Times editorial workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newsmen & Unions | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...each window represent a phase in the life of a woman. Rousseau's Portrait of a Young Girl, bloatedly enlarged, became "Her Awkward Age"; his Sleeping Gypsy, complete with mandolin and prowling lion, "Her Bohemian Period." Unlike previous art-conscious window displays, Buckley's contained no merchandise. Sole exception: a limp corset which dangled from the raggy hand of a baggily nude Eve (see cut). Its caption: "Her Subconscious Self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art for Window-shoppers | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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