Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When disunion has become a fixed and certain fact," wrote New York City's Democratic Mayor Fernando Wood to the city common council 18 days after South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860, "why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal and corrupt master-to a people and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her commerce...
...walk out of the Union along with "our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States"; 2) abstain from joining any trouble-starred Southern Confederacy; and 3) declare itself a "free city," to be named Tri-lnsula for its islands of Manhattan, Staten and Long. The common council was all for it. But when South Carolina rebels fired on Fort Sumter, secession became a fighting word in the North, and nothing more was heard of Tri-lnsula...
...last week the New York city council, in a crackpot mood, voted 23-1 to appoint a committee to study secession once again, this time not from the grand old Union but from New York State. Reason: Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Republican-run state legislature were, in the words of Brooklyn Democrat Joseph T. Sharkey, "robbing us." The point: New York City contributes roughly 50% of the state budget, gets back only 38% of state expenditures on services. But one lone Republican, standing against a house divided, threw in an argument that stung the most ardent secessionists. Said...
Four hundred and fifty students from 41 Massachusetts high schools will converge on Memorial Hall today for a mock United Nations Assembly sponsored by the Harvard United Nations Council. Paul E. Sigmund, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, will preside over the General Assembly this afternoon...
...present problem, but is still relevant to administration laissez-faire and general Yard apathy. One cannot help but note certain professors who appear rather bored with their large lecture courses, and House tutors who dislike to sit with students at dinner, a growing phenomenon noted by the Council Committee on the Houses. The sight of a tutor entering a dining hall, looking about in vain for his graduate friends, and proceeding to sit alone at an empty table, is a distressing one for the student who would like to sit with a member of his House staff now and then...