Word: stapleton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after World War I, Denver dreamed more of the past than of the future. So did Mayor Ben Stapleton (TIME, March 10). Old Ben was one of the most powerful city bosses in the U.S., but he devoted himself mainly to falling asleep at banquets and opposing change. But when Denver woke to the alarm-clock jangle of World War II, and began to grow and get new industry, its 77-year-old boss suddenly seemed as outmoded as a wooden sidewalk...
Mayor Ben Stapleton of Denver, 77, who fell on his face swinging at a baseball last fortnight, but rose in one piece, tested his cohesion again. As he entered the University of Denver chapel to make a talk, he neglected to open a plate glass door, strode straight through it. Again the mayor remained quite whole...
...been mayor since 1923 (except for one term). Under the city's home-rule charter, he has become one of the most powerful municipal dictators in the U.S. But last week there were signs that Democrat Stapleton might be unhorsed. For the first time in a decade he had a tough opponent: wealthy, Yale-trained Republican Quigg Newton, a onetime legal secretary to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who had the backing of a growing reform movement...
...businessmen who had exploited the city's complacency for years by splitting the opposition vote among several politically feeble candidates. They pointed to the dirty and rutted streets, the antiquated purchasing methods, the confusing street signs, the inadequate health and police and fire services as examples of Stapleton's do-nothing policy. And they wondered why a city of 380,000 should allow its mayor to appoint, and thereby to control, all municipal employees except the auditor...
...Stapleton was moved by all this, he said nothing. He is a shrewd politician who has worked in or for Denver since the turn of the century. In his five terms as mayor, he has pushed gambling and prostitution outside the city limits, completed the $50 million water system on which Denver's hopes for industrial expansion are based, fought for and built a municipal airport, encouraged tourist money and kept the city free of major strikes...