Last November Cleveland junked city managership, decided to return to a mayor-&-council form of municipal government. After eight years' trial voters liked the city manager idea well enough in theory, but objected to the practical fact that Maurice Maschke, G. O. P. boss of Cuyahoga County and Ohio's Republican National Committeeman, controlled managers as well as mayors. Last week, Clevelanders definitely broke Boss Maschke's 16-year rule over City Hall by electing a Democratic mayor for the first time since the pre-War days of Newton Diehl Baker.
It was a straight political fight, with only two names on the short ballot and no...
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