Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until last month did Reformer Douglas achieve political office. Then he was elected alderman by the town-&-gown black-&-white fifth ward, became the most sensemaking of the 50 members of Chicago's City Council. Last week Professor-Alderman Douglas, having encountered one of the things that make a politician's life hard, devised his own way of facing it To his constituents he issued a typewritten appeal...
...PLEASE HELP ME REMAIN AN HONEST ALDERMAN...
...Ever since I was elected alderman I have been deluged with requests for contributions from [religious and charitable] organizations who never before asked me for gifts Now I would like to post this question to the good people who are making these requests: How can an alderman satisfy them and yet remain honest? . . . With an alderman's salary what it is [$5,000], if he does make these contributions on any appreciable scale, he is almost literally forced into the 'racket...
When witty, dashing David Lloyd George was elected a Carnarvonshire alderman at 26, an M. P. at 27, he was criticized as being too brash for one so young. At the end of the century, with such mighty trombones as Joe Chamberlain blaring imperialism, he was criticized for playing pacifistic, pro-Boer tunes. The wealthy aristocracy lambasted him, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his famous Budget of 1909 (which lambasted them) and for his bad taste in calling certain noblemen "Mr. Balfour's poodles." In 1912 he was censured in Parliament for a somewhat shady deal...
...became mayor and Jimmy Hines lost the city's horseshoeing business. For $3,500 he sold a share in the smithy to one Klenke. Hines drew $75 a week for himself and about $4,000 a year out of profits, but after 1907, when he was elected alderman, politics was his real profession. In 1912 he sold Klenke the rest of the smithy for $7,000, and with a man named Madden went into the trucking business, fattening on city contracts for snow, garbage, rubbish removal. After a strike by the city's truckers, they made...