Word: councilmanic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back-yard Councilman Michael A. Sullivan of Ward 9, Harvard's best friend and severest critic, faces a stiff battle for the Democratic nomination which is equivalent to election...
Stagehand Browne was there as a vice president and executive councilman of A. F. of L., sitting with his fellow councilmen and president, William Green, at their summer meeting to review Federation affairs, deal with such inter-union disputes as this. "It is all a headache," said Mr. Green, who enjoyed elbow-rubbing with stars but had a cold and much confusion in the head...
Threatened with a wholesale bolt to C. I. O., the council decided this week to give jurisdiction of former A. F. A. members back to the actors, then got down to saving what face it could for Councilman Browne and Secretary Whitehead...
...Cambridge, Mass. Councilman Michael A. Sullivan told the city council that Harvard Square (named after John Harvard who sailed into Massachusetts Bay in 1637 and willed his library to the college when he died in Charlestown, Mass, in 1698) should be changed to Washington Square. His reason: "[John Harvard] was just another foreigner who never set foot in this country...
...afternoon newspapers published in Manhattan all but two are conservative: the morning, tabloid Daily News and the evening Post. Last week, after six up-and-down years under Philadelphia Publisher J. David Stern (TIME, June 26), the Post got a new owner: the American Labor Party's City Councilman George Backer, whose liberalism is more profound than J. David Stern's and whose financial resources are greater. Young (36) Publisher Backer's first acts were to pay back, with interest, the 10% of their salaries the Post's staff members had been contributing to the paper...