Word: councillor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is the toughest advertisement Cambridge has had for years," Councillor John D. Lynch commented. "It doesn't line up right at all. It just doesn't line up right," he added...
...into plans for a gala reception at the town hall and a royal inspection of the local cotton mill. But then he learned that Her Majesty was to be attended at the visit by 100 rifle-bearing airmen of the R.A.F. Pacifist Mayor Bland appealed to a Lancashire county councillor, who in turn appealed to the Lord Lieutenant in charge of the royal tour. Could the airmen leave their death-dealing rifles in barracks for just this once? Back came the relentless answer: "Custom cannot be changed. It is instruction to all services that arms must be carried on such...
...Poujade got his movement started when tax collectors came to his village in Southern France a year and a half ago. Pou jade, an ex-stevedore, professional bicycle rider and prewar Fascist-party politician who fled to England and fought in the R.A.F. during the war, was a municipal councillor. The villagers asked him for help. Poujade sympathized: "I cheat on my taxes, and I always have. I couldn't get by otherwise," he told them. He organized his first successful resistance...
...taking on an extra-legal hue. Throughout the state, white businessmen and farmers have begun to organize local "Citizens' Councils" to prevent Negro children from entering white schools, "by legal means if possible." Negro leaders are quietly urged not to challenge the status quo; otherwise, as one councillor put it: "The good feeling and harmony that have been building here for many years could all be wiped away...
...full glory as Privy Councillor, Master of the Horse, Gentleman of the Bedchamber, a Minister of State, Buckingham was so haughty that not Charles himself escaped the great duke's disdain. When he was really exasperated by the royal indolence, Buckingham could express himself excellently in light verse...