Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries, admirers of Tom Dewey sarcastically accused Harold Stassen of campaigning like a county sheriff. Now, before Oregon's May 21 primary, Tom Dewey was running like an alderman who wanted to meet all of Oregon's 630,000 voters personally...
Last November Coulter bought a roomy house on fashionable Wellington Crescent. Last week, when Coulter asked Alderman Charles Simonite to fill his place for ten days; his city knew what...
Marine Fireworks. Candidate Douglas has none too happy a reputation with party workers. As a rebellious and reform bent city alderman, he had thrown many a prewar monkey wrench into the Kelly-Nash machine. He had been badly beaten in the 1942 senatorial primary. Then (while his wife, Emily Taft Douglas, guarded the family political fortunes by serving a term in Congress), he had gone off to fight as a private in the Marines. Twice wounded, he came home a hero and a lieutenant colonel...
This character of the sons of Virginia, which Professor Coolidge cited at the installation of Edwin A. Alderman, has been molded by battle and distilled by bottle. At the outbreak of what is referred to as "the late unpleasantness between the states," 9,000 students had matriculated at the colonnades of the Jefferson rotunda. Of these 2,481, almost 30 percent, fell at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and many are buried within the famed serpentine brick walls of the 500-acre campus...
...program, a 15-minute concoction of dialogue and old songs, will be aired over Manhattan's powerful WHN five nights a week, beginning May 19, and will not interfere with guest spots on other stations, new recordings, and other comeback plans. Husband Alderman will be on hand, too. But, says Ruth, "it won't be the usual husband-&-wife show, with a lot of silly chatter over the breakfast table...