Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta, the Georgia Supreme Court threw out the conviction and one-year prison sentence of an Atlanta alderman who had been found guilty of accepting a $1,750 "present" intended to influence his vote in a zoning case. Georgia, the court declared with obvious embarrassment, has no law making it a crime for a municipal official to accept a bribe...
...will embrace mercy, love, charity, and walk humbly with my God." Not even Daley's best friends really believed him. And on the night of his victory, the freewheeling old politicians fairly danced in the streets. Across Chicagoland flew the jubilant cry of a colorful saloonkeeper and alderman named Paddy Bauler. "Chicago," he roared, "ain't ready for reform...
...boss of the teeming 24th Ward, on Chicago's West Side. He was the ward's first Negro alderman. He wore $200 suits, and his friends called him "Duke." He held real estate valued at more than $100,000. He had just leased a shiny new political headquarters, with autographed photos of people like John F. Kennedy on the wall. That was how it was with Benjamin F. Lewis, 53. Everything was going his way. Last week he was re-elected as alderman by a pretty decisive margin-12,189 to 888. It almost seemed as though...
...churches on the campus? Every one of the 47 remaining London churches designed by Wren was damaged or destroyed during World War II. Over the years, 37 of them have been restored; one of the few considered for eventual demolition was St. Mary Aldermanbury, probably named after the ancient alderman's court that once stood near by, and rebuilt by Wren after the Great Fire of 1666. Although the roof and furnishings were destroyed in the blitz, the walls, interior columns, some doorways and a handsomely garlanded east window remain...
Iannello has at least one distinguished predecessor. In 1940 the late James M. Curley ran for alderman and won while serving a term in the Charles St. Jail. Curley almost pulled it off a second time in 1949 when he was defeated in the mayoralty race after serving time for mail fraud. This political heritage is not lost on Iannello, who announced with deep emotion after his nomination: "Curley was my second father. I only wish I could fill his shoes, even one shoe...