Word: councillor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dude" had a devious sense of humor. In 1948, when the councillors were struggling to elect a mayor, Sullivan created a moment of levity by placing an egg in fellow councillor Hyman Pill's pocket, hoping that it would break when Pill sat down. The egg story made the pages of Life magazine...
Mickey did not know the woman, but when she told him that the welfare man wasn't doing anything for her, the city councillor said he'd take care of it. Sullivan then "laid the welfare man out in lather," according to Cruickshank...
Connarton also says Mickey used to walk the corridors of City Hospital (now the Cambridge Hospital) and ask patients if they were receiving good care. If they weren't, the city councillor would go to the administrator's office and demand to know...
Spalding says that he was once riding in a car with Walter when a lady pulled up next to them and thanked the councillor for something he had done for her three years...
That policy would sometime upset the people around the councillor and mayor...