Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Letters endorsing the scheme were received from Col. E.M. House, Newton D. Baker, Edward W. Bok, Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Dr. Kenneth C.M. Sills, President of Bowdoin College; Dr. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Dr. W.H.P. Faunce, President of Brown University; William Marshall Bullitt...
Upon the 2,677th anniversary of the foundation of the Eternal City, which is also the Fascisti Labor Day, the freedom of the city of Rome was conferred upon Benito, Premier of Italy, by Senator Filippo Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome, a position carrying the powers of mayor and alderman...
...intelligence that an alderman of Flushing, New York, has accused various candy retailers of inciting gambling among the children and so injuring their morals arouses immediate indignation--against the candy retailers, of course. Not only does the particular game in favor stimulate vice in the coming generation but it actually swindles the confiding children most shamefully. In its intended form, it is naturally unfair,--but when the dealers tamper with the works, and remove the most favorable chances altogether, it becomes worse than selling street-cars to immigrants. That most-reviled deed--taking milk from babies--becomes almost benevolent...
...Charles C. P. Clark of Oswego, N. Y. By it the qualified voters of a city would be divided into regional groups of 700. From each of these groups, 70 voters would be chosen by lot to meet and, in a sort of town meeting, to select an alderman. The elected aldermen choose a mayor and city officials. Everybody serves until he is recalled, which happens when petitions are presented for calling new meetings...
This plan has been followed in successive years. Men associated with the Institute have been: As directors?William H. Taft; Archibald C. Coolidge, Harvard Historian; P. M. Brown, Princeton authority on international law; E. A. Alderman, University of Virginia President; Edward Asahel Birge, University of Wisconsin President; Harry Pratt Judson, University of Chicago President...