Word: councilmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight of the nine Councilmen are running for re-election, the exception being Hyman Pill, who is retiring. Councilor Charles Watson predicted that all eight would be re-elected and that Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler would be elected to fill Pill's seat. Alfred Vellucci said flatly, "I will be re-elected in a landslide...
...alliterative speeches. (Wagner, he said last week, was a "municipal Milquetoast" of "dynamic indecision, vigorous vacillation and intrepid inertia.") He has failed to make an issue out of crime, juvenile delinquency, or any other of the problems that vex New Yorkers: e.g., corruption charges against two Democratic city councilmen, city-choking traffic snarls, worsening public schools and the flight of the Giants and Dodgers to California's greener (and greenbacked) pastures...
...born wife Janet, once a Chicago Young Communist Leaguer, as Minister of Labor, Health and Housing. To aid the nine Jaganites and the five leftists from splinter parties who won the 14 elective seats in the Legislative Council, Renison used his appointive powers to name nine additional councilmen who, though they are all nonCommunist, are friendly enough to Minister Jagan...
...filed before Jan. 1, 1952. When the Hillcrest case came before the city council, it met dezoning requirements by having a reported 95% of surrounding homeowners signed up with drillers who would slant-drill from the club's 145-acre golf course. At the same time the councilmen were impressed by the possibility that the city-owned Rancho golf course might be drained of oil by the adjacent movie-lot wells, thus losing potential revenue that could lighten taxes...
Since his eviction from City Hall, New York City's councilmen have given him two old-fashioned reasons for their action. "They say TV coverage is 'disruptive' and the council members will 'ham it up,' " he explains. "I told them their ethics and integrity ought to be a matter for them to work out with themselves. But it was no dice. Now I feel it's my missionary duty to see this thing through." This week the council invited Pressman and representatives of all three networks to a formal session devoted to the admission...