Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidates as upper class political dictators. The fact that managerial government cut cut the city debt by $10,000,000 in six years became a minor issue in the minds of the electorate. When Harvard voters were thought to favor Plan E. two politicians fought their campaign on a Town and Gown angle. With voters simmering over the possibility of "Tory Row" or Harvard domination, any real recognition of Plan E as a successful experiment became impossible. An aroused but befuddled electorate returned only five of the nine C.C.A. candidates to office and the City Council will limp along...
...Francisco, Elmer E. Robinson, 52, a much-married (four times) Superior Court judge, succeeded to the mayor's chair voluntarily vacated by peripatetic Roger D. Lapham, who had traveled widely in his unsuccessful efforts to bring the United Nations to his home town. Elected by a narrow margin over two opponents, Robinson had the varied support of civic leaders, liquor interests and the Hearst newspapers...
...save face, Greeks do not like to admit how badly off they are. The young prefect of a district described to me how his town was virtually encircled, how its garrison was outnumbered, how nearby villages were raided nightly, how he was at a total loss to feed and house all the thousands of refugees who had flocked in to the relative safety of the town. He painted a hopeless picture. Finally a British correspondent with me commented that, judging by the way the prefect talked, the guerrillas were winning the battle in this area...
...such things are likely to go on only in the big, sinful cities like London. In the Cheshire market town of Macclesfield last week the heavy betting all seemed to be above board as Chrysanthemum Champ Jim Jackson preened his finest blossoms for the local flower show. Macclesfield's wise money was all on the old champ's posies to cop the prizes, and only a few flashy characters, who were strangers to the town, bothered to play the long shots opposing Jim. Then, a day or so before the show, someone broke into the Jackson hothouse...
...first the Government-controlled papers kept quiet; what was left of the opposition press printed glowing stories. Then the Peron party line was passed along. The pro-Perón La Época, charging that the prize had been "granted with political ends," went to town with a caricature of Dr. Houssay and an attack on the originality and value of his studies of the pituitary gland. "This gland detective," it said, should have been doing something useful like tackling tuberculosis and syphilis. Physiologist Houssay did not reply. He was busy last week getting ready for next month...