Word: councilmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have them both and more. If we are wise enough to work together, we cannot fail." . We Will Never Leave. For four 18-hour days, at walled village after village, he went through the same routine-the greeting of the pipers, the investiture of new mayors and councilmen, the decorating of soldiers and civilians with everything from the Mėdaille Militaire to the Sanitation Cross with Palms. But wherever he was-the marketplaces, at a feast of whole roast sheep, or in private audience-he knew that those to whom he spoke may well have served with...
Though the president of the deposed council protested, "This is a veritable coup d'etat" and there were rumors that the councilmen might meet in secret on French soil, Monegasques were neither rushing to the barricades nor fleeing to the border-a ten-minute walk from almost anywhere in Monaco. The 58-man army did not spring to arms, and Prince Rainier soothed his subjects by promising women the vote in national elections, a project dear to the heart of his U.S.-born wife...
...provisional regime dismissed all provincial governors, mayors and councilmen. Apparently their functions will be taken over by new civilian appointees prepared in advance for the task...
...week earlier the Senate and Chamber of Deputies had elected all state legislators and city councilmen, and the state legislatures, not to be outdone, had simultaneously elected a new Senate. A few legislators discovered that they had been chosen without their own knowledge...
...center for Negroes, only two years ago got around to building a pool and bathhouse for whites, in the Lindley Park area. Last June after a Negro woman was turned away from the white pool, the N.A.A.C.P. petitioned the city council to open the Lindley Park pool to Negroes. Councilmen, recalling trouble in St. Louis and other cities over the mixed-swimming issue, called for a public hearing. Just before the hearing in October, the N.A.A.C.P. sensed it was over its head and withdrew its request. " But the issue was joined. At the hearing, Negroes were split; several testified that...