Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city hall in party hands for half a century. Byrne endorsed Washington after her primary defeat, then decided to oppose him through a write-in bid, then decided not to. Few of the machine's 50 ward bosses have offered their nominal nominee much help, and last week Alderman Roman Pucinski became the eighth of them openly to endorse the Republican. He said he could not ask his present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski: "Why should I give him the guillotine with which to chop...
Maryland Hotel Developer Ralph Deckelbaum, 53, who has been using a portable phone on a trial basis for more than a year, says he is "tickled to death with it." But life has not been the same for his secretary of 22 years, Anna Belle Alderman. "It used to be that when he left, he was gone," she sighs. "Now he never leaves; he can talk to me every five minutes if he wants to. When he goes out on a construction job, he calls me while he's standing on one of the girders...
...Chicago Alderman Lawrence Bloom keeps a list of 6,000 voters on a computer. "It's very personalized," he says. "Precinct workers can call someone and say, 'Alderman Bloom helped you get rid of that abandoned car. Now he needs your help...
Beggars can't be choosers. Alderman Peter Grover of Austin, Minn., was out jogging one morning last fall when over the earphones of his portable radio he heard a report that a meat-packing plant just 40 miles across the border in Mason City, Iowa, had been ordered to close down. The plant was, said a Mason City judge, a public nuisance: noisy and smelly, regularly fouling surrounding streets with blood and animal parts. Grover knew an opportunity when he heard one. Within days, Austin had presented the plant's owners, North west By-Products Inc., with...
...also runs the town garage, soon learned that holding high public office was no fun. Said he: "Every time I get under the hood of a car, I get a phone call from somebody complaining about something." After just two weeks in office, Penberthy demoted himself back to alderman, while the board prevailed upon Daniel Shunck, the director of the high school band, to take over. In the meantime, several vacancies remain in the police department. One eager applicant? A chastened George Morgan, who claims to have learned his lesson. Says he: "The other policemen told me to watch...