Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curley was 25 when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council. At 27. marshaling more toughs than the opposition and able to steal more ballot boxes, he was boss of Ward 17. At 40, after roasting Brahmin ''Goo-Goos" of the Good Government Association, he was mayor. And at 60. after Curleyites burned enough crosses to provide a background for Cur ley oratory against the K.K.K. and prejudice, big (6 ft.. 200 Ibs.) Jim Curley was elected Governor. In addition, he served four terms in Congress, was jailed twice for fraud, was once ordered...
Osage's race relations soon grew so healthy that two Negroes were elected to the five-member city council organized in last year's self-improvement drive. "We're trying to get the community fixed up a little," said Councilman Louis Toka, "and getting along pretty well...
...Amman, firing shots in the air, shouting: "Long live Hussein!" and "Hussein, we are your men!" Grateful citizens carried Hussein on their shoulders. Premier Samir Rifai informed the U.N. representative in Amman, Pier P. Spinelli, that the government intended to protest Syria's behavior to the U.N. Security Council. Jordan demanded an immediate meeting of the Arab League Council to take action. U.A.R. officials replied that Hussein's plane had been crossing Syria without proper clearance and had been intercepted by its MIGs in a routine and perfectly legal manner. Cairo newspapers ridiculed what they called "Hussein...
Five Latin American cardinals,*18 archbishops and 19 bishops met in Rome last week to find solutions for the Roman Catholic Church's imposing problems in Latin America. The prelates were attending a meeting of the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM), a church agency founded in Rio in 1955 to coordinate Roman Catholic activity in Latin America, held for the first time outside the hemisphere. They were joined in their sessions, held in the Latin American College on the banks of the Tiber, by high Vatican clergymen. Before the conference ended they were received by Pope John XXIII...
Meeting in Cincinnati, the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church reaffirmed its support of the Supreme Court decision of 1954 against racial segregation in public schools. "We heartily commend," said the bishops, "those lay people, pastors and bishops who have demonstrated Christian courage in critical areas...