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...artillery captain in World War I, Sinclair Weeks, like his father, began his political career as an alderman, became mayor of West Newton. He tried for the Senate in 1936, was nosed out for the nomination by Cabot Lodge. He fathered six children, built up a solid fortune as president of Reed & Barton (silverware) and board chairman of United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips). An able businessman in politics, he put the Massachusetts G.O.P. on a sound financial basis, is now treasurer of the G.O.P. National Committee...
...DEATH STOPS THE FROLIC-George Bellairs-Macmillan ($2). As exuberant Alderman Harbuttle led a gay crocodile of English "follow-my-leader" through the aisles of a dusky church, he was suddenly and expertly sliced with an ordinary bread knife. Subsequent events and beautiful sleuthing put the story at the top of any list...
...Labor Party was equally complacent: it read out Manchester's Laborite Alderman and former Mayor Joe Toole for violating the Party truce, entering Skipton's race as an Independent. The local Conservatives put up a Party worker, 61-year-old Harry Riddiough. Socialistic Sir Richard Acland's up-&-coming Common Wealth Party entered young (31) Lieut. Hugh Lawson of the Royal Engineers...
...scandal-scarred Jim Curley this is indictment No. 3. At the age of 29, while a Boston alderman, Curley was sentenced to 60 days for taking a letter carrier's examination under another man's name. After he had thrice been Mayor of Boston, the State Supreme Court ordered him to pay back to the city treasury, at the rate of $500 a week, $42,629 which he had been found guilty of accepting as graft. But Curley, oozing martyrdom, turned both cases into political assets. Campaigning from jail, he touched many an Irish heart by telling...
...post-war work, Mrs. Hamilton is assistant to the Paymaster General, Sir William Jewitt, K. C., M. P., and is assistant editor of the Economist. Among the other offices she has held have been Parliamentary Secretary to the Postmaster General, a governor of the British Broadcasting Company, and alderman of the London County Council...