Word: councilors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't fighting the parties in the pursuit of their party interests, I was trying to get them to work together. Well, the Social Democrats won the election, and I, whom every man on the street here knows by sight, I lost my position as a city councilor. I have given up politics now until the Germans realize that only by working together can they rebuild this country. It is our greatest tragedy that we have not brought forth a single able man in politics...
...radio, airplane and Caterpillar tractors, and its government may as well be exposed, too. No less important, the council roster now includes for the first time a representative of the people governed: hulking (6 ft., 227 Ibs.) John G. McNiven, mine manager for Negus Mines, and-as a fellow councilor describes him-"the very picture of a husky, hardrock miner...
Said one august Control Councilor in surprise: "It's not advice that Japan needs now, but absolution...
Meanwhile, Central Square businessmen were not so lucky, said City Councilor Hyman Pill. He claimed that business there suffered "a noticeable loss" during the first day of operation...
...witness testified that, although Furtwängler was the Nazi-appointed Staatsrat (state councilor) of Prussia, he had conducted only four times at Nazi Party affairs, had turned down 60 invitations. Another witness, a Jew, said that Furtwängler had saved his life,' and the lives of other Jews. For nearly two hours last week the Germans on the tribunal, three of whom had been in concentration camps, deliberated. Their verdict: Wilhelm Furtwängler was not guilty of collaboration...