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...face of all the pious opposition, the Trois-Rivières aldermen decided that maybe the old by-law had better be enforced. That meant that, whatever their bathing costumes, boys & girls, men & wives, would swim alone-or else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: In the Swim | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Donegal. Warming their Irish faces at the front tables with Illinois' Governor Dwight Green, were Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelley, Judge Tom Courtney and Federal Judge Philip Sullivan (of Sewell A very-Montgomery Ward fame). Behind them were droves of Chicago's Irish cops and aldermen, and even a scattering of priests. They liked it best when Regan swung into The Same Old Shillelagh, brandishing a shellacked stick which was not the old shillelagh that his father brought from Irrreland. At the Stevens, Phil had suddenly to fill in for Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: That Old Shillelagh | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Jessica Allan loves her job. She is the pert, bright-eyed, fortyish executive director of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. Last week, when more than 300 mayors and aldermen from Halifax to Victoria swarmed into Winnipeg's Royal Alexandria Hotel for the federation's tenth annual conference, everything was all set. Jessica had seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Jessica & Friends | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Chicago celebrated "Rat Extermination Week," hoped to wipe out 2,000,000 rats. Aldermen toured the city in sound trucks urging everybody to pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...rule these rich and raffish stews of the new metropolis. Bathhouse John, once a rubber in a Turkish oath, was the front man. He was a huge, bumbiing. handsome ruffian, full of pomp, speech and warm red blood. Tight-lipped Hinky Dink was the boss. They were elected aldermen; together they controlled the vote, became loved, feared, respected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Museum Piece | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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