Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Unfortunately it is all too true that in a very great many instances, popular elections throughout the country are only attended by a comparative minority. Smaller issues and candidates for petty positions are almost uniformly neglected by the better class of citizens. Hence there comes into power the crooked alderman and the "gang boss." This latter type could not exist if the voting privilege were universally used...
...University of Virginia also is teaching navigation. Dr. Edwin O. Alderman, President, writes...
Voted on recommendation of the Administrative Board of the Medical School to award the following first-year Medical School students scholarships for the year 1916-17: David Williams Cheever Scholarship to G. E. Cheley; Francis Skinner Fund to R. D. Stillman; George Haven Scholarships to M. Alderman, G. E. Gayler, D. D. Lyon, H. B. Marble, E. C. Romberg, H. S. Fickle, W. E. Savage, J. M. Lonely, R. E. Merrill, E. E. O'Neil, W. D. Scudder, S. H. Weiner, R. R. Wheeler, W. A. Yoakam...
...Emma, his wife Miss Elsie Wulkop Asta, their daughter, Miss Enrica Barth Sauerbrei, henpecked husband, Mr. C. L. Scaracer Rosalie, his wife, Mrs. Ward P. Shattuck. Klara, their daughter, Miss Elsa Warnke Arnold Reimann, architect, F. S. Cawley '10 Hugo Berger, life-insurance agent, C. G. Cook 3G Pieper, alderman, J. L. Mosle '20 Ballinger, alderman, R. P. Berie '20 Karner, alderman, J. R. Lauer '20 Lehmann, alderman, M. Cowley '19 Blechschmidt, alderman, C. A. Rome '17 Moll, physician, W. Silz '17 Hampel, messenger, W. J. Margreve '19 Frau Balder, Miss Gabriele Veit Pauline, maid at Birkenstock's, Miss Lina...
...other characters are for the most part ludicrous in themselves, and the situations into which they are put are calculated to bring out their idiosyncrasies in the funniest manner. There is an alderman who "bosses" town and council and is in turn "bossed" by a Xantippian wife. There is a dapper young insurance agent who undertakes to get his friend out of trouble, and instead draws him into a mesh of complications. There is a group of aldermen typifying various stages of conservatism, churlishness and inebriation...