Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party chased them from time to time: there was a regrettable fracas when one of the latter, finding himself next a small female with a loud voice, attempted to stuff his handkerchief down her throat and cut off her hair, perhaps her head, with his pocket knife. An alderman took action and the party progressed without further untoward incident until the time came for eating...
...Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned as Chicago's first Negro alderman and as a Cook County commissioner...
...Alderman B. A. Cronson, supporter of the America First party, and Mayor Thompson: "Don't you worry, you guys, America First will be first on April 10 without any pineapple days...
...There is in the New York City Hall a quiet, efficient President of the Board of Alderman, Joseph V. McKee, 38, who patronizes a conservative tailor and does much that Mayor Walker leaves undone. He is at his desk before 10 a.m., whereas Mayor Walker seldom appears before noon, if at all. Mr. McKee likes law reports and biographies. *Mayor O'Keefe confessed that he had never seen anyone get so hilarious on ginger ale as did Mayor Walker...
...firm-minded chairman was wanted for the Federal Radio Commission. Through Secretary Hoover, President Coolidge again urged the post on his friend, Carmi Alderman Thompson of Cleveland. Col. Thompson declined. The President had to think of other prim-minded...