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...himself was not available for comment (he was last seen in Bath, Me. attending a Group musical show called You Can Defend America), but from his press-relations department came a stream of releases giving testimonials from everyone from Franklin Roosevelt to "the Lord Mayor of Bristol and 52 aldermen and councilors...
...political career has included positions as Assistant District Attorney of Middlesex County, member of the Board of Aldermen of Newton, and Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
...Room at the Lincoln Savings Bank. At closing time one afternoon, the employes heard strange noises in the Ladies' Room. Miss Claudius was inside, reading aloud from a law book. She knew and could quote law by the ream, to the confusion of municipal boards of estimate, aldermen, tax assessors, policemen. Once she was arrested for having ice in front of her house, obstructing the sidewalk. She got out her box camera, took pictures of ice in front of a couple of churches and a police lieutenant's house. She was acquitted...
Until 1938, serious, civic-minded WNYC had no time for comedy. But that January, New York City's new City Council replaced its old Board of Aldermen, and WNYC moved in to broadcast the sessions. In no time this unique program had an estimated 750,000 listeners. East Side stores, bars, cabbies, business executives, housewives tuned it in regularly. There were arguments fit to kill, rare old Fourth-Ward oratory, Tweedledums-&-dees all over the house. One week listeners might be treated to an afternoon of old Roman allegory, in re the city's garbage policy. Democrat Hugh...
...high-binding comedy, the WNYC program was peerless. But to the Council's newly elected 1940 Democratic majority of 14, it was a pain in the caucus. One ancient City Father summed it up: if it took the aldermen over 100 years to make fools of themselves, the Council accomplished it in two. So last fortnight New York City's City Council voted, 13-to-7, to keep WNYC's and the public's nose out of the Council's business...