Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiting to greet them was Swedish King Gustaf V, but discreet silence on tense public occasions is the duty of a constitutional monarch, and His Majesty left it to Stockholm City Councilman Frederick Storm to tell Finland's President what all Swedes were thinking: "If anything wrong should happen to one Scandinavian country it would be of the utmost importance to all of them. Any wound made on any nation in our group would always be an open wound...
With this demonstration to give him confidence, Councilman Quill answered the A. L. P. Taking a line much like that of the Communist Daily Worker, Mr. Quill called A. L. P.'s summons to battle against Communism and Naziism a piece of warmongering, hotly refused to endorse the resolution. "I never have been and am not a member of the Communist Party," said he. "I refuse, however, to join any witch hunt. ... I refuse to participate in a campaign which leads inevitably to the suppression of the labor movement and all liberal and progressive forces in the nation...
...Councilman Mike (Mickey the Dude) Sullivan yesterday personally investigated a syndicate which was counterfeiting Social Security cards, he announced last night after a meeting of the Cambridge City Council...
...incumbent Mayor Harold H. Burton or John O'Donnell of the School Board. Behind this novelty was a pretty piece of Democratic boggling. Two equally powerful party factions fought themselves into the ground, refused to compromise. Desperate leaders turned to the local version of Texas' Maury Maverick, Councilman William C. Reed, begged him to accept the nomination. On a strict "no strings" platform, Mr. Reed accepted tentatively, if a $25,000 campaign fund were raised without macing the utilities, gamblers, contractors, racketeers. Hampered by this restriction, leaders did not find enough funds. Mr. Reed withdrew promptly; filing...
Harvard Square, the traditional name for the district around the University, may be "George Washington" Square if a plan of Cambridge Councilman Michael A. (Mickey the Dude) Sullivan goes through...