Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed William E. ("Rarin' Bill") Potter, Cleveland councilman until ousted in connection with that city's land-grant scandals in 1928-29, dropped into the City Hall within the fortnight for a chat with some of his old friends. They stood in an alcove long known ironically as "The Statesman's Window," from the highly political railleries exchanged there when voluble Mr. Potter was on the Council. Perhaps they discussed some of the 13 suits which have been started against him since 1924, or the perjury trial against him then pending, or the fact that...
Last week Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor, lost the vote of William Winston ("Bill") Roper, famed Princeton football coach. Mr. Roper who, away from Princeton, is a Philadelphia councilman from the Germantown district, announced that he would bolt his party to support John M. Hemphill, Democratic nominee, because he was a thoroughgoing Wet. Bolter Roper managed the 1922 primary campaign which won Mr. Pinchot his first term as governor...
...clerk stopped droning. A little councilman named Walz hopped to his feet, demanded Mr. Hopkins' immediate dismissal. He offered no formal charges. A few letters, mostly favoring Mr. Hopkins, were read. The clerk droned a formula. The vote: for dismissal, 14; against...