Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoosier State's famed literary group (George Ade, Booth Tarkington, the late George Barr McCutcheon, the late James Whitcomb Riley), Author Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men) began in politics by fighting the Ku Klux Klan. He was elected Indianapolis city councilman, worked hard for a city manager plan. Though passionately fond of oratory, he has been not an outdoor but an indoor politician. He stage-managed Governor Paul V. McNutt's inaugural last January, is a good friend of Secretary of State Hull. He refused to comment on his appointment last...
Last week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system...
...Second Congregational Church at Beloit, Wis. three Sundays ago went Edward Robert Branigan, City Councilman. Into the collection plate he dropped $1. As soon as the sermon was over he demanded it back. Preacher Herbert Arthur Studebaker had preached as follows...
Preacher Studebaker had flayed Beloit's city government before, inveighing particularly against Councilman Branigan. Last week Councilman Branigan, wise in the ways of publicity, thought of a way to get even. He announced he would sue Mr. Studebaker for $1, under the law against obtaining money under false pretenses. Said he: "He made a political speech when the congregation were led to expect a sermon. When a minister of the gospel pronounces himself the ambassador of God, inveigles me into his church ... to hear the word of God preached, which undoubtedly my soul needs very much, and then delivers...
Legally dominant, the Viceroy demanded that New Delhi's Municipal Council do something about the monkeys. They could, one Councilman proposed, be penned up in wire enclosures (like Gandhites). The Council called this scheme "impractical," temporized, waited to see if Nature would not tell the monkeys to get on with their migration...