Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students and townsmen. A number of Cornell men decided to blockade the street until a horse car driver should apologize for insulting a student. Accordingly, they stretched a rope across the street and piled boxes on the track faster than they could be removed. The mayor and several alderman appeared on the scene and tried unsuccessfully to quell the disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water on the students, who charged in a body and, after a hard battle, captured the hose and turned it on the crowd. The melee...
...Bradlee, the independent candidate for mayor of Boston, has with-drawn in favor of the republican nominee, and the contest now lies between the present Mayor O'Brien and Alderman Hart...
...rush into the political arena in the vain hope of honorably wrestling therefrom a competence sufficient to maintain him in his early years of struggle. Where would he begin? At the bottom of the ladder; in the common council, perhaps. There he would receive no remuneration. Nor as an alderman would he receive pay for his duties, at least, not in honorable fashion...
...Alderman Jaehne has entered the class of '98 at Sing Sing...
...year ago, when Alderman William E. Russell was nominated by the citizens of Cambridge for the office of mayor, and chosen by a strong majority over Mayor Fox, we took the ground that his selection, like that of Mayor Low in Brooklyn, was none the less wise because of his youth. He was only 27 years of age when elected, yet his administration has been so judicious and honest that his renomination on Saturday by the unanimous vote of the citizens' convention was looked for as a foregone conclusion. The disposition of young men of thorough collegiate and professional training...