Word: supervisorship
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...wholesale grocery firm in Joplin, Mo. Twenty-five years ago he settled in California. He was twice elected to the Los Angeles City Council by the businessman vote. When Supervisor Jack Bean mocked him as ''the grocery boy who made good,'' Mr. Shaw wrested the supervisorship from him by 80,000 votes. He was chairman of the County Board of Supervisors when elected Mayor last week. During this long public service no serious question had been raised about his citizenship. His explanation: his father, who died when his son was 14, had been naturalized, which automatically...
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