Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proletariat's Grand Councilman, Excellency Cianetti last week declared: "The experiment of the 40-hour week is for six months, that is until April 16. It is conducted through contracts signed between representatives of the employers' syndicates and the workers' syndicates in Italian industry. Since the worker gets the same hourly wage while his week's salary is less by eight hours' pay, the experiment is not an added burden to the employer, as was the case when a shorter week with the same weekly pay was tried in the United States, and it does...
That Harvard's tax-free stadium, which stands in Allston, a part of Boston, be placed on the city rolls is the proposal which Councilman Clement A. Norton will introduce in a near future meeting of the metropolitan city council...
Adding this fact to the present need for new sources of municipal income, Councilman Norton believes that Harvard should pay taxes, too. People pay to get into the stadium and it is a money-making proposition as far as sports...
...sheepish as men who had gone to school with them pointed derisive fingers. The Lynchburg council had made a monkey of itself over arithmetic. The council was about to tax Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia 3% of its gross revenue for doing business in the city, when a councilman suggested that the franchise tax be set at 1½% and the company be required to provide city officials with 40 free telephones. A 3% tax was calculated to yield $8,000. The annual charge for 40 telephones was $2,880. The council majority wanted whichever proposition would yield...
...delegate by moving to Lowell House this fall. Until the spring elections have given the commuters an official vote, Canter will support the commuter interests, not as another Council member, taking Hall's place, but merely as an ex-officio representative. Hall will still maintain his place as a Councilman...