Word: councilmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clean Sweep. In Wheeling, W. Va., ordered to "clear Market Street of bums," Rookie Patrolman Arthur McKenzie went to work, sent packing a banker, two insurance executives, a detective, two city councilmen...
...town. Crimson banners bearing the hammer & sickle and Picasso peace doves hung from street lights, and Marxist slogans were plastered on the centuries-old walls of the Church of the Annunciation. Turbaned Communist orators belabored street-corner crowds. Nazareth, the boyhood home of Jesus Christ, was electing 15 city councilmen...
Despite the strong opposition of their churches to Communism, 447 Roman and Greek Catholics-along with 1,586 other Christians-deserted to the Communist ticket. The Communists got 38% of the vote, more than either of the two other parties, and elected six councilmen. Moslems and Christians on the council would have to work together if the followers of Marx were not to run the city of Christ...
...majority of Cambridgeshire's county councilmen agree that Vienna-born Dr. Hildegarde Broda, 42, more than earns the salary she gets as assistant county medical officer in charge of schoolchildren...
Prior to last night, it had been rumored that the other five Independent councilmen had pledged not to vote...