Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peaceful little Oraschin, terrible-tempered Town Councilman Wenzel Klimes called the autocratic local mayor "a Hitler." Last week the Mayor brought suit for slander. Ruled the judge: "To call an official 'a Hitler' is an objectionable expression, reflecting on the authority of the person attacked. Councilman Klimes, I sentence you to pay a fine of 30 crowns [$1.25] or to serve 24 hours in jail...
Harvard last week received another token of the esteem in which it is held by Cambridge, Mass. To curb the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then," Councilman Charles H. Shea proposed in Council that the city buy six horses (at $200 each) for its police. Said he: "We need mounted police for the Harvard students. I don't know if they are Communists, Bolsheviks or nuts, but we should be ready to cope with them...
...Councilman J. Gordon Duffy thought it would take twelve horses. The rest of the Council decided that for 8,000 Harvardmen six horses would be plenty...
...Councilman Charles B. Shea introduced the measure at the last meeting of the council, and at first was met only with ridicule. But a loyal supporter, one J. Gordon Duffy, saw the light, but changed Shea's motion. Shea had asked for twelve horses, but that was too much. Six would be plenty. Six it was, and six it will...
Died William Winston ("Bill") Roper, 53, Princeton's famed retired football coach, Philadelphia city councilman since 1920, branch manager of Prudential Insurance Co.; of a blood infection; in Philadelphia. Dynamic and eloquent, he adhered to no school or style of play, preached spirit and opportunism, taught his men not to fall on fumbled balls but to pick them up and run, decried football publicity when his teams had bad years, wrote football articles galore in good years...