Word: municipales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
New Brooms. A dozen women, fed up with the male politicos who had increased municipal debt while letting the town decay, formed their own "United for Walsenburg" party, drafted a stern austerity platform calling for prompt payment of the town's debts and no salaries for the mayor and...
Sweeping Clean. Under Mayor Ethel Stacy, wife of a retired rancher, the women briskly set about cleaning up the mess. By delaying municipal paychecks, the women wiped out Walsenburg's $5,333.75 debt of back taxes owed to the state.
In the endless war between bureaucracy and the individual, a new skirmish was being fought last week in industrial Manchester. A 6-ft., nobly bearded Sikh named Gyani Sundar Singh Sagar. 43, having passed the examination to become a conductor on Manchester's municipal buses, was eager to don...
Far more than the Post or the Chronicle, the Press fills the role of municipal watchdog-with a tendency to yip at everything from murder to pay raises for Houston city councilmen. Alarmed at Houston's high murder rate, the Press labeled the city "Murdertown, U.S.A.," campaigned so relentlessly...
Given the stubborn resistance of caste to the most enlightened attempts at reform, few foreigners or Indians looked for an overnight revolution. But the Calcutta Municipal Corp. promised to equip its 2,000 sweepers with the new brooms, and New Delhi's Chief Sanitary Inspector Partap Singh personally called...