OHIO: Two & None

Due to confusion about the date on which its brand new council form of city government was to begin, Toledo last week had two mayors for the first six days of 1936. At that, Toledo was better off than Cincinnati, which began the new year with no mayor at all.

In 1924 honest Cincinnatians freed their city from boss rule by voting a new city charter, entrusting municipal affairs to a nine-man council which elected one of its number mayor and chose a city manager. Only the dreamiest idealists expect an aroused citizenry...

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