Word: councilmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cortes. The 611-member Cortes, meantime, will be reduced to 403 members, including 108 who will be directly elected from Spain's 54 provinces, 25 who will be appointed by the chief of state, and 270 others who will be elected by Spain's municipal councilmen, trade unions and professional organizations. Thus, for the first time since the Civil War, Spaniards will have a say-though yet hardly more than a whisper-in the work of the legislature...
...bother to vote in local elections up North; by contrast, 85% of the Jews vote, and get commensurate rewards when politicians pass out patronage or nominations. New York's 16% Negro population elects only one of the city's 19 U.S. Congressmen, two of the 37 city councilmen...
...City councilmen and John J. Curry '19, City Manager, have recently challenged Rudolph's traffic policies. "They're hoping I'll get the job done anyway and then they can say I didn't need the extra help in the first place," he complained. He noted that Massachusetts is the 50th state in the Union to pass an anti-jaywalking...
Even under the Senate bill the Democrats will not have a monopoly on local office. Of the 19 city councilmen, five are to be elected at large, and no party may nominate more than three candidates for those seats...
...provision for 14 elections on a ward basis was similarly designed to insure that some white councilmen would be elected. In a city nearly 60 per cent Negro, it was feared, at large elections would produce an all-Negro council...