Word: counciling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reservation* and one of unassailable respectability. ("You can get off any time you like for a lodge meeting.") Its grand titles satisfy a yearning for rank and prestige. "I am among other things," said a degree-draped Elgin, Ill. photographer, "a Noble of the Shrine, a member of the Council of Royal and Select Masters of the York Rite, a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, a Knight of the East and West, a Knight of the Brazen Serpent and a Knight of the Sword. Sometimes when I go home late at night crocked and my wife raises hell...
Trouillas is an untidy, ramshackle village of 1,100 souls in southern France, not far from the Spanish border. Last week the name of Trouillas was heard round the world. By unanimous vote, the town council passed this resolution: "Considering its ardent desire for peace, in the name of the population of Trouillas, the council decides in unanimity to adhere to the world citizens' pact and to the movement created for a universal federation of peoples for the fight against war. We declare the commune of Trouillas world territory...
...word of this reached the villagers, converts flocked in by the score. The name of Garry Davis began to creep into almost every conversation about the price of grapes and apricots. The mayor dreamed up the idea of declaring Trouillas to be world territory, and sprang it on the council one day when seven of 13 councilors were present. The seven were a quorum, and every one was in favor...
...some time the Argentine Economic Council had been eyeing the grotesque subsidy structure, but refrained from touching it for obvious political reasons...
Last week without warning, almost casually, the council canceled the subsidies on cooking oil, soap, milk and beef for the capital. Porteños whispered that the President himself had appeared before the council to ask for the step. The rumor ran that soon all subsidies, even the whopping annual support for wheat and sugar, would be lifted...