Word: aldermanic
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...financier, campaigned with the experience of a society clubwoman who had come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her own party before securing her nomination. A somewhat amateurish city alderman, she was opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite and defended by another, both Jews. A woman Socialist, Bertha...
Weeks started his political career in Newton, being an alderman, in that city from 1900 to 1902. He was mayor for the next two years, and chairman of the Republican state convention...
...mixing with chambers of commerce and booming the shipping facilities of Hampton Roads, he has helped to revive in Virginia politics. This spirit was visible at the Governor's Ball, not only in the presence of all the F. F. V.'s, Woodrow Wilson's widow and President Alderman of the University of Virginia, but also in the presence of all Virginia's onetime Governors who are yet alive. The affair, most brilliant of Virginia's social year, was given under the auspices of the Virginia League of Women Voters. In what State besides Virginia is the League of Women...
...been investigating the frauds, conspiracies and murders attendant upon Chicago's primary election last April, last week brought indictments of a police lieutenant, eight racketeers and a large, dark figure who had seemed destined to gain fame in the councils of the nation-Oscar DePriest, first Negro alderman of Chicago, nominee of the G. O. P. to succeed the late famed Martin Barnaby Madden in the House of Representatives. It was not the first time Mr. DePriest had been indicted. In 1916 he was accused of handling tainted money, but the charge languished and died in Chicago...
...Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia. Reason: "the spirit of liberalism, instead of cautious stand-pattism...