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Word: aldermanic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's ex-Alderman Fairchild let go his red herring. "Democracy," as he is well aware, is that ideal government defined by Lincoln as "of the people, by the people, for the people." By "the democracies" TIME, in common with the rest of the world's press, refers to the U. S., England and France - the democratic countries which are of No. 1 military importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Fidelity's president, 68-year-old Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime Treasurer of the U. S. (1912-13), protested bitterly. But rather than go through lengthy litigation on the matter, he agreed to a permanent injunction terminating all the alleged violations of SEC regulations. This quieted SEC but brought a court petition from nine Fidelity shareholders asking that it be put into receivership for insolvency. While Fidelity voluntarily ceased selling certificates and making payments, the case dragged through several postponements in Federal District Court of Wheeling, W. Va., headquarters of the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Solvent | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Married. Ruth Etting, 42, famed torch singer, onetime cinemactress and stage star; and Myrl Alderman, 30, her onetime piano accompanist; she for the second time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Etting's first husband, Colonel Martin ("The Gimp") Snyder, is now on trial for attempting to murder Alderman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Growing mushrooms in a subterranean room on his Cleveland estate is the hobby of pudgy, sleepy-eyed Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime Treasurer of the U. S. (1912-13) and currently president of Fidelity Investment Association. Old Financier Thompson may soon have more time for his mushrooms, for last week SEC asked a Federal judge in Detroit for injunctions whose effect might put Fidelity out of existence "as a fraud and deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Fraud and Deceit | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Died. John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin. 78, since 1892 a Chicago alderman and political power; of pneumonia; in Chicago. A onetime Turkish bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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