Word: councilmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prettier Picture. This week the News's well-documented series brought quick action. Democratic Mayor Martin Kennelly hastened to announce a meeting of top housing experts to "consider" the News's charges, while Chicago's city councilmen and metropolitan housing council got ready to investigate on their own. One Chicago judge ordered a landlord to tear down a building listed in the News series, and show the court a picture of the empty lot or face a $2,200 fine. As a result of the News series, a bill before the state legislature to tighten up housing...
Congress parted with the money with great reluctance, mostly because Truman's councilmen had made few friends on Capitol Hill. Under Truman, the three CEA members all had equal standing. Thus the council was often split and public squabbles were common. It became less of an advisory board and more of an apologist for the Administration's economic policies. There seems to be little chance of similar trouble under Burns. Said he: "My inclination would be to stay out of the limelight, make my recommendations to the President, indicate the basis for [them], and then, having done that...
...three separate votes, the Councilmen urged (1) that parietal rules be standardized and more or less equalized with those of the Houses (it was stated that at present Claverly "enjoys" freshman parietal rules): (2) that resident tutors be substituted for proctors; (3) that Claverly men be allowed to take out books from House libraries...
...Some Councilmen suggested that freshmen are merely liaison between the Freshman Union Committee, which appoints them, and the Council. As such, two representatives are sufficient, they maintained. During their first semester here, freshmen lack sufficient perspective to properly consider most issues, they added...
...week's end, cheering crowds met Hymie Miller as he and his white councilmen visited what was left of Albertynsville. "It's a long time since Negroes cheered a white man," said one surprised Johannesburg official...