Word: councilwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopped to a higher limb. Once Kenerson turned down two strangers' offer of $200 for the bird. Next day he found the cage spattered with blood and fragments of men's clothing. He said the thieves were lucky to have escaped alive. Last fortnight a New London councilwoman proposed that the eagle be presented to Manhattan's Central Park Zoo. Then a councilman dug up an old Connecticut law against caging eagles, announced that Uncle Sam had been illegally imprisoned all these years. "The best thing and the most humane thing to do with it," wrote...
Then Dr. Charles Stedman MacFarland resigned from the Federal Council, after admitting that he had been paid by Tsar Hays to lecture on and recommend cinemas. Similar cases followed. Mrs. Jeannette Emmerich, hard working Federal Councilwoman, resigned, admitting that she too had been on the Hays payroll. Meanwhile, The Churchman asserted that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman...