Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the First National Bank of Urbana, Ill. failed. Panic spread. Mayor Reginal Carl Harmon sat up most of the night with the city councilman and economic professors from nearby University of Illinois. At dawn, he issued an edict suspending all business in the town for five days excepting only food, drug stores, public utilities, newspapers. And the following night he said...
Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts of Reno raged when he discovered between 75 and 100 prized, costly ducks floating dead on a pond at his Spanish Springs Hunting & Fishing Club, near Reno. Two guests, Jack Vandershoot and Henry Nelson, son of a Reno councilman, had shot the birds by mistake. They were live decoys...
...Lehigh. Princeton's 150-lb. team was soundly thrashed by some Choate schoolboys, 46 to o. Florida, heavily penalized for unneces- sary roughness in the second quarter, took an unnecessarily rough beating from Ala bama, 41 to o. The Hill School, drilled by Princeton's longtime coach, Councilman William Winton ("Bill") Roper, ran up five touch downs in the second half to beat Gilman. 32 to o. Tulsa beat Mexico City 89 to o. Mex ico City's coach. Fred Linehan, Yale guard in 1930, explained the mishap: "The Mexican linemen would not think...
...Councilman Albert Meyer but black-mustached, half-bald Dr. Heinrich Haberlin, 62, who has just learned English...
Astute cultivator of Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke...