Word: dickmann
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Milligan a poor third, and Missouri voters found to their dismay that, in a year when Louisiana had kicked out the remnants of the Huey Long machine, they had voted to restore Pendergastery. Old Tom Pendergast was out of Leavenworth on probation, and under the lee of Mayor Bernard Dickmann's St. Louis machine the Pendergasters in Kansas City could now mend their battered breeches. No one believed that Republican Candidate Manuel A. Davis would be strong enough to beat Truman in November. If Missourians cared, they had only themselves to blame. In St. Louis alone 169,000 registered...
...tritons, by famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, represent the meeting of the Mississippi and the Missouri, is known officially as the Meeting of the Waters, locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony. Last week a crowd of 2,000 saw the fountain unveiled at last. Speakers were Mayor Bernard Dickmann, Mrs. Aloe (widow of the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe), Sculptor Milles himself. When the white, sheetlike veils were removed and the water shot 90 ft. into the air, wetting Sculptor Milles and a surrounding bevy of flower-toting ladies, everybody cheered. Conspicuously absent were Chairman Francis D. Healy...
This winter's smoke has been the worst so far. Prodded by the city newspapers (and by ambitions for a third term in 1941) St. Louis' stubborn Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann last December agreed that slow moves for smoke abatement had to be turned into fast moves for smoke elimination, set up a seven-man board to consider new measures...
...fuel burning equipment to burn it smokelessly; 2) all others must use smokeless fuel - coke, oil, briquettes, gas; 3) if necessary the city must buy, sell and distribute smokeless fuel to bring it to consumers cheaply. Those measures were designed to eliminate St. Louis smoke in three years. Mayor Dickmann endorsed the plan, pledged that he would push the recommendations, and deep breathers could look forward to the day when St. Louis air would again be fresh...