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...Saltonstalf, Harvard Law School graduate, has had many years of experience in public life in this state. Practicing law in Boston, he was for a short time assistant district attorney for Middlesex County, a member of the Newton Board of Aldermen, and from 1923 until the end of last year he served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
...years old. know all the tricks. To newshawks, Commissioner Valentine explained that there was no law specifically covering car-watchers. that soft-hearted judges usually let them off in court when they pleaded that they were "only trying to make an honest living." The Board of Aldermen at once took the logical step for cities blighted by the car-watching racket, by drafting amendments to the Traffic Code and City Charter forbidding it. Before they were passed, to City Magistrate Anthony F. Burke was brought 18-year-old Negro John Preston who admitted soliciting to watch cars, pleaded that...
...Kermesse Héroïque (Tobis). When a Spanish messenger gallops into the Flemish town of Boom one morning in 1616 to announce that the Duke of Olivares and his battalion plan to spend the night there, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen are scared out of their wits. Foreseeing a repetition of the bloody invasion of Antwerp, the Mayor suggests a ruse: he will pretend to be dead and the Aldermen, mourning at his bier, will be spared the necessity of resisting the intruders. When the Spaniards arrive, the men of Boom-except a young painter named...
...from time to time by the crash and thunder of the guns. Full text: "We. therefore, the Lords spiritual and temporal of this realm, being here assisted with these of His late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor. Aldermen and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that the high and mighty Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David is now. by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful, rightful Liege...
Died. Bernard Seymour Deutsch, 51, president of New York's Board of Aldermen and onetime (1929-March 1935) president of the American Jewish Congress; suddenly, of coronary thrombosis; at his home in The Bronx. Mr. Deutsch became active in politics in 1932, was elected to office on the Fusion ticket the following year. By his death Tammany Hall regains control of the Board of Estimate...