Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Labor had resorted to finagling to keep control of the city government. The city government includes, in addition to the councilors, 21 aldermen elected by the council. Under a small-type clause in the council's constitution...
...British politicians recognized Cripps's courage in going to bat for an unpopular but economically necessary budget. But there was no getting away from the fact that it represented a crisis in Labor Party affairs, as was promptly shown by the licking Labor took in the London County Council elections (see above). For years, Laborite leaders had appeased the workers' demands for higher wages by pointing out that the Socialist government was at least keeping prices low. Now there was bound to be trouble. Said Socialist M.P. Mark Hewitson of the powerful General and Municipal Workers' Union...
Unable to find a candidate to his liking in the London County Council elections last week, one voter wrote his own into the ballot: "Good Old Charlie...
...known in China as theologian and poet. When the Japanese jailed him in wartime for six months of solitary confinement and semi-starvation, he is said to have composed a new poem each day. At Amsterdam last summer he was elected one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches...
Speaking on the topic "Education at Harvard--Means and Methods" will be Henry S. dyer '27, director of the Office of Tests, Philipp G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, and David C. Poskanzer '50, editor of the Student Council report on "Harvard Education 1948." Oliver H. Taylor, lecturer on Economics, will moderate...