Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight-man police force (seven part time) wrote about 100 traffic tickets a year. That was about it, until George Morgan was hired in June. In just three weeks on the job, Officer Morgan had handed out 53 tickets. Perhaps his worst mistake was giving one to Town Alderman Harvey Penberthy. With Penberthy leading the pack, the angry ticket holders besieged the board of aldermen to rid the town of this new menace. On July 11, Morgan was fired...
...Chicago politics, patronage is not exactly unknown. Even nepotism is a lively tradition: Mayor Jane Byrne's husband and daughter both work for her. But no one takes kinship more seriously than Chicago City Alderman Fred Roti. He admitted last week that 16 members of his family are on the municipal payroll. Roti, 60, a Byrne loyalist, says it is all relative: "So, I have some relatives on the payroll. They're doing an excellent job. What's the beef...
...November, the new company was petitioning the Aldermen for extension permits. Heated discussion proceeded the November 23 hearing; the Chronicle ran several editorials urging the denial of their request, questioning the legality of the move and accusing the company of ulterior motives. At the meeting, one Alderman--Francis L. Chapman--requested a legal opinion from the city solicitor. A representative from C.R.R. countered that the city had no right to deny the request, that only the Supreme Court had jurisdiction. None of the debate really mattered. The Board voted to grant permission, Chapman casting the only dissenting vote...
...October 8, the newspapers reported the case of one Jeremial Haggerty, a liquor dealer whose fourth class (grocer's) liquor license had just been revoked by the Board of Alderman. It seems the police chief had been going from shop to shop in late September with a request that the stores close on account of the Garfield obsequies: when he came to Haggerty's business, he noticed the beer pump dripping and saw several men standing at a counter drinking. Though not positive, the officer throught they were drinking ale. Since city laws prohibited a grocer from serving liquor...
...following week, the election--in which 5000 voters went to the polls--ended up much the same way. Those candidates affiliated with the Charles River Railway captured seats from all but wards two and three, and Alderman Chapman, the lone dissenter on the vote to grant C.R.R. the extension permit lost his chair. The outcome of the liquor license question was unclear--the tally on the referendum changed with each recount--but five aldermen elected were considered anti-license. "Cambridge is to be given prophibition by the railroad, this is the result and the only result of last Tuesday...