Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desperation," said the new governor of Formosa last week, "is the mother of reform . . . We've got to try new men and new ideas." Shrewd, capable K. C. Wu, onetime mayor of Shanghai and longtime friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, was talking about plans for the administration and defense of his new domain, the rich, 250-mile-long island of Formosa, which had become the last refuge of China's Nationalist government...
...little town of Stuart, Fla., New York's ailing Mayor William O'Dwyer ended two months of speculation, rumors and denials by getting a license to marry Texas-born brunette Divorcee Elizabeth Sloan Simpson, 33, onetime model and more recently a department-store stylist. Miss Simpson chose a plain navy-blue suit for the ceremony this week. The couple planned to honeymoon aboard Industrial Engineer H. G. Matthews' yacht, Almar II, after a while head for Manhattan's Gracie Mansion, home of New York's mayors...
...foreseen, Israel bitterly defied the U.N. action. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharrett announced that his government would never give up Jerusalem: "To the Jewish people [Jerusalem] has been and is the very heart-the symbol of its past glory, the lodestar in its wanderings . . ." Jerusalem's Israeli Mayor Daniel Auster warned: "We shall stand at the city's gates to keep out any pretenders." A spokesman in Tel Aviv threatened passive resistance: "I don't know if a U.N. governor will find a house to work in. If he does and sets about establishing public services...
...York's durable Mayor William O'Dwyer, 59, recovering from virus pneumonia and nervous exhaustion, started a vacation in Florida...
...form. In the presence of an official committee, which included EGA Deputy Chief M. Leon Dayton, a sunburned Italian bricklayer placed the last tile on the roof of the Fiorello LaGuardia Hospital, which is being built next door to the monastery. Named for New York City's late mayor, the new hospital is expected to be opened next spring with eventual accommodations for 500 beds. It will serve not only the entire district of Gargano, but also the many ailing pilgrims who come to visit Padre...