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...next to the last day of his term Mayor Hylan resigned in order to get a pension of $4,205.99 a year. He however went to his office next day while the President of the Board of Aldermen was technically Mayor. Then Mr. Hylan made his adieux to the City Hall. For 30 days, he said, he would rest and consider, then he would announce what his future would be. At the inauguration of Mayor Walker, speaking by invitation, he said...
...once the most fertile and the most diseased. More than 80% of the cows of this county have been shown by the tuberculin test to be tuberculous, yet McHenry County supplies Chicago with most of its milk. Last week despite supplications of "downstate" farmers, the Chicago Board of Aldermen proposed an ordinance which requires that all milk sold in Chicago shall come from healthy cows. Physicians of Chicago wrote an open letter to Governor Small in which they stated...
...Mayor and Aldermen of Rome, having Red tendencies, were virtually ousted by the Fascisti in March, 1923, since when they have been replaced by a Royal Commissioner...
...Clark of Oswego, N. Y. By it the qualified voters of a city would be divided into regional groups of 700. From each of these groups, 70 voters would be chosen by lot to meet and, in a sort of town meeting, to select an alderman. The elected aldermen choose a mayor and city officials. Everybody serves until he is recalled, which happens when petitions are presented for calling new meetings...
...respect for curricula, but he admires teaching personality. He once knew a teacher himself. " And since the personality of the various men in the teaching force of the city is in the long run rather more important than the personality of the Mayor, the Comptroller or any of the Aldermen, we wonder just what philosophy of news has conferred anonymity upon them quite so completely...