Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Antwerp last week arrived pictures of Leo Frenssen, a surprise victor in Belgium's recent municipal elections; bounding over the cane (see cut) by means of which he proved to Antwerp voters that at 58 he is still a man of no mean physical prowess. Councilman Frenssen was considered a harmless crank, hipped on the passe tenets of U. S. technocracy, until he and his "Technocrat Party" won 21,000 votes, enough to entitle them to six seats in the Antwerp municipal council. Since new councilmen will not take their seats until after January 1, perplexed Antwerp...
Speaking on "Why Boston Hates Harvard" before an American Civilization group in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night, Boston City Councilman Robert A. Norton blamed this feeling of animosity on the fact that the community does not know Harvard and the University is "uppity" in its attitude to the outside...
...former city councilman, who three weeks ago expressed a longing for the good old days of town and gown fights and promptly had the crease taken out of his pants by Lampoon storm troopers, said in an interview yesterday that Plan E is for the present a dead issue...
...immediate question hinges on the legality of the registration of 30 graduates who were personally challenged at the polls by City Councilman Michael Sullivan...
Next month, people who can afford to pay 50? for a magazine and have the time to read 30,000 word "abridgments" will be offered Omnibook, published and edited by Robert Kenneth Straus, New York City Councilman and son of Jesse Isadore Straus, late Macy store tycoon and Ambassador to France. Each Omnibook page will contain four book pages with margins trimmed. Each number will include about 100 pages from each of five books...