Word: aldermanic
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...Voting Public. In Goondiwindi, Australia, Frank Pforr ran for alderman on the slogan: "Pforr he's a jolly good fellow," finished last in a field of 13 candidates...
...from Washington, local officials are trying to keep their doings out of sight of the public. At last week's meetings, publisher after publisher told of closed meetings held by school boards, city councils and others handling public funds. Not all the reasons were sinister (explained one alderman: "If you quoted what we said, we would sound like fools"). But there seemed a growing assumption that public business is none of the public's business. Samples...
Milwaukee, notable for its clean government, is described as a city where "you can buy a judge for $200 and an alderman for $50. Socialists take at standard prices." Milwaukee newsmen pointed out that the mayor is the only Socialist official, and no one has ever questioned his integrity...
Asked one newsman: Is Ike "officially" a candidate? Said Lodge: "I don't know quite what you mean. He isn't like a candidate for Boston alderman." Then he added: "I know he is not running in the New Hampshire primary just for the exercise." After Lodge kept suggesting that they check with Ike to substantiate his statements, one reporter objected: "What if we don't get an answer in Paris?" Ex-Newspaperman Lodge laughed. "You've got a story either way," he said...
Prevented from cheering the President personally, the club sent Kansas City's beefy Alderman Thomas J. Gavin around to give him its Christmas present-a $275 gold cigarette lighter, which, club members happily reported, had been bought wholesale for $150. "It's real solid gold," Gavin told non-smoker Truman. "Don't give it away, Harry...