Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a Transit. For three years, good, grey Edwin Nourse, 66, a onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, had been chairman of Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA had been set up to keep the President informed as to the complex economy's ups & downs and in-betweens. On the CEA with Nourse were ardent New Dealer Keyserling, 41, who helped Senator Robert Wagner write the Wagner Act, and John D. Clark, an economic and political anomaly who was onetime vice president and director of Standard Oil of Indiana...
Meanwhile, he had been elected mayor of Boston again and had to leave City Hall to serve his term. It was then, that Curley's strongest opponent in the present, mayoralty race, John' B. Hynes, became acting mayor. The city's charter provides that the chairman of the city council be mayor in case the elected mayor's indisposition, but in such a confused state was the city of Boston, that the city council chairman was also being held on under indictment by a grand jury, charged with graft. Thus, Hynes, the City Clerk, became mayor and was given...
This gloomy forecast is effective in getting out votes; but not all independents are as the CCA paints them and even if it wins only three council seats it is unfair to assume that all six or even a majority of the independence would be purse snatchers...
...doubtful, however, that the CCA need seriously worry at all, about such a remark. Its four incumbents on the council, Pill, Swan Crane, and Deguglielmo are all likely to be reelected. Lawrence F. Feloney, a newcomer is running a strong race. CCA's organization and growing prestige are likely to give it at advantage over the "independents" who depend wholly on votes they can rally in this own districts through personal popularity...
What friction there may have been between Harvard and Cambridge municipal author its has rarely showed on high levels. "We have a lot of respect for the University on the Council," Deguglielmo said, "and we have always done our best to fulfill the requests of the University." Public statements made against Harvard usually stem from the value as vote gutters...