Word: councilmen
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...vengeance. Langlie and his reform colleagues, though they were the minority, forced centralized city purchasing, establishment of a police training school, a shutdown of gambling halls and brothels, and a $2,000,000 slash in a fat budget. In 1936 the Cincinnatus decided to run one of their councilmen for mayor, picked Arthur Langlie. He lost to Dave Beck's friend, John Dore, by 5,000 votes, filed again two years later, won by 30,000. He was re-elected in 1940 without making a speech or spending a cent of campaign money. Soon afterward, he was visited...
After ten years of nationhood, the Republic of Italy last week voted in numbers that might shame older democracies. On a leisurely, balmy Sunday, nearly 24 million Italians, 91.1% of the electorate, trooped to the polls to vote for mayors and councilmen in Italy's 7,143 communes. From a welter of confused and overlapping statistics emerged one clear fact: the Christian Democratic party, generally supposed to have been losing ground with the voters, is still the choice of more Italians than any other party, and has actually picked up a few percentage points since...
...bitter racial climate of South Africa, Cape Town (pop. 385,000) is an island of tolerance. In the city's buses white and black ride together. There is no segregation at city hall concerts or at public libraries. Of the 45 city councilmen, six are nonwhite. Last year, at the direction of Nationalist Prime Minister Strydom, the provincial government passed a law giving the local governor power to impose apartheid on reluctant urban communities and bill them for its cost. Cape Town ignored the ordinance...
...city councilman: "Why do we do these terrible things at the mere hint of pressure from the Nationalists?" Last week the pressure became more than a hint. In the face of new threats from the provincial governor to act if the city did not, Cape Town's white councilmen regretfully capitulated, reluctantly started work on the segregation of park benches and city beaches and banned nonwhites from the city auditorium...
Another proposal, which CCA members suggest, would make the mayoralty election separate from the Council elections. The voters would elect one mayor and eight Councilmen--not nine potential mayors as at present. The delays and recurring political deals would vanish, and the mayoralty would cease to be a political plum, plucked in back rooms of the Hotel Commander. The qualifications for a mayor, after all, differ from those for a councilman; the separate elections would give the voters the chance to put the right man in the right office, and the city would not be forced to depend so much...