Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considering retirement in 1937, Ruth divorced her husband, a onetime Chicago gunman named "Moe" Snyder, known more popularly to tabloid readers as "The Gimp." The next year, The Gimp crashed her Hollywood home and shot up Ruth's pianist, Myrl Alderman. The Gimp went to jail for a year. Ruth eloped with Alderman and retired to a Colorado ranch...
Last September WPTB began getting anonymous tips that even pulp was not the final solution. Smudged coupons began to show up. WPTB called in the Mounties. By last week indictments had been voted against 48 people, ranging from Hull grocer-alderman J. Arthur Lavigne to Eddy employees. So far 16 have been convicted (fines: $50' to $800) and Canada's tightest black market ring has been smashed...
Broadway Baby. The U.S. had never seen anything quite like Jimmy Walker. He grew up in Manhattan's Greenwich Village with the cigar smoke of Tammany Hall in his nostrils. His father was a Democratic alderman. But Jimmy's heart always belonged to Broadway...
...Toronto-Parkdale the winner was vigorous, popular Harold Timmins, 50, a Toronto alderman and a veteran campaigner. The Liberal defeat was not too surprising: Toronto-Parkdale has never elected anyone but a Conservative...
...Second Alderman: Never mind. Motion carried. Have the minutes show we're going to buy that thing. Don't bother to have the minutes show what...