Word: aldermen
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...Hickory Flats, Miss., the board of aldermen has passed ordinances making swearwords in public a misdemeanor, whiskey on breath a felony...
...certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps it was from this arrangement, which glorified the American love of uniform and title, perhaps from the fact that...
...Ford plans for a two-mile tunnel, to bring 1,000,000,000 gallons of water a day from the Detroit River, were approved by city authorities. The tunnel would be the property of the city, although built by Ford money. The project was laid before the Detroit aldermen last week...
...William Shakespere was the only "antecedent link" that research has brought to light, this writer continues that the poet probably invited his London friend Robert Harvard to Stratford. There he may have introduced this friend to Miss Rogers, whom Shakespere surely knew, as both his father and hers were Aldermen in the little town. Furthermore, Shakespere was in Stratford about the time the Rogers-Harvard wedding took place there...
...neither golden nor popular. The greater the tumult, the greater the profits of the traders, the more stocks and bonds are being sold and resold, the more money is being borrowed and relent. Last week, the powers of The Street prepared to ask New York's Board of Aldermen to still the noises of riveting, pile driving. But it was to spare their ears for the more important sounds of money-changing...