Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bags & Insults. Disregarding recommendations of his own citizens' committee (which suggested a bond issue and such new service charges as a trash-collection and auto users' fee), the mayor and his nine-man city council adopted an income tax ordinance without a public vote. Shouts of outrage echoed in the Rockies, as the Denver citizenry dramatized memories of the Boston Tea Party by waving tea bags at protest meetings and crying, "No taxation without representation!"* Newspapers took sides, and, surprisingly, the hard-hit Chamber of Commerce, figuring that the tax would drive still more people into the suburbs...
Disarmament. "The NATO Council will neglect no possibility of restricting armaments within the limits imposed by security . . . We state our willingness to promote, preferably within the framework of the United Nations, any negotiations with the Soviet Union likely to lead to implementation of disarmament proposals...
...Houses elected their student council representatives yesterday. The Freshman class also completed balloting for the Jubilee Committee, and nearly elected Councilman Al Vellucci on a write-in campaign...
...winners of the House Student Council elections included: Dunster House, Paul A. Wee '59; Kirkland House, Paul E. Freehling '59; Leverett House, Daniel M. Fox '59; Lowell House, David M. Perlmutter '59; Winthrop House, King K. Holmes...
Captain of Traffic, Edward Tierney, told the Council that under the trial plan, traffic will move toward Harvard Square only on Garden Street, toward Somerville on Mass. Ave. along the section which borders on the Common, and from Mass. Ave. to Garden Street along Waterhouse Street...