Word: councilman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telephone jangled. Commissioner James Hay left the room to answer it. Lieutenant Commissioner Haines went on talking for a minute or two; then wearily he sat down. When Commissioner Hay returned, even the most phlegmatic councilman could spot him as a bearer of bad tidings. From London had come a trunk call. Gen. Booth had gone to law, obtaining a temporary injunction which forbade the council to elect a successor to his deposed self...
Indianapolis, Ind., a town of much political consciousness and confusion, was committed to Daylight Saving Time by its City Council. Its mayor then vetoed the ordinance. But last week the City Council overrode the veto, six votes to three. Effective in the repassage was Novelist-Councilman Meredith Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, Otherwise Phyllis, etc., etc.), now serving his first term. Mr. Nicholson reported that he had received a telegram from Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, declaring that "the movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour...
Cemetery, Nuremberg, last week, by Common Councilman Herr Doktor Wagner. Drawing a deep breath, he declared: "Proudly Nuremberg calls him Son and Master in the same breath! Today we place a wreath upon this silent hill. Ach! Vita brevis, ars aeterna [Oh, Life is short (but), Art eternal...
...carefree mood, he let it be known that he had no immediate intention to "locate at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue" (i.e. in Congress). Perhaps, he said, there would be a vacancy in the municipal government of Northampton, Mass. It was as a Northampton city councilman that President Coolidge entered politics 28 years...
White Alderman Merritt Martindale, senior Councilman, interrupted Mr, Whitlock. "Now, Bill." he said, "I hope you're not going to take a wrong view of us whites. The difference is there and it does no good to try to hide...