Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Councilman Bigelow produced a deadlock by refusing to vote either with the four Charterites or with the four Republicans for a mayor, ostensibly because he wanted Cincinnati to get its power from TVA. In vain did the city manager explain that TVA would not be ready to deliver power for five years, that the city already had contracts with private power companies which the electorate had apparently considered satisfactory. To this Councilman Bigelow replied: "It's not a struggle over rates in Cincinnati, but an important section in the great fight of President Roosevelt...
Actually, charged popular, three-time Charterite Mayor Russell Wilson, the reward demanded by Councilman Bigelow for supporting the charter was three important city jobs for his friends. Rather than pay that price, Chartermen would apparently dicker with the Republicans. Meantime, Councilman Bigelow blithely observed: "Perhaps we may never get a Mayor. What's the difference? A Mayor is only a ceremonial figure, a sort of political parsley to adorn ceremonial dinners. Why shouldn't the Councilmen take turns at this sort of punishment, eating meals without money and making speeches without meaning...
Bunker selected his assistants with the aid of Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, Student Councilman in charge of Freshman Affairs, and of Francis Keppel '38, ex-chairman of the Red Book. Advice was also proffered by first-year officials. Personal interviews with some fifteen candidates determined the final choice...
Robert M. Bunker '39 has been appointed Chairman of the 1939 Red Book, Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, Student Councilman in charge of Freshman Affairs, announced last night...
...bird. Next day he found the cage spattered with blood and fragments of men's clothing. He said the thieves were lucky to have escaped alive. Last fortnight a New London councilwoman proposed that the eagle be presented to Manhattan's Central Park Zoo. Then a councilman dug up an old Connecticut law against caging eagles, announced that Uncle Sam had been illegally imprisoned all these years. "The best thing and the most humane thing to do with it," wrote the New London Day's columnist, "is to chloroform it as quickly as possible and remove...