Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect for curricula, but he admires teaching personality. He once knew a teacher himself. " And since the personality of the various men in the teaching force of the city is in the long run rather more important than the personality of the Mayor, the Comptroller or any of the Aldermen, we wonder just what philosophy of news has conferred anonymity upon them quite so completely...
Mussolini continues to strengthen the cordial relations existing between the State and the Vatican. Filippo Cremonesi, a Royal Commissioner, who was appointed as acting Mayor of Rome when the Mayor and Aldermen resigned three weeks ago, made an official visit to the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Cardinal Pompili. The call was returned by Cardinal Pompili, who as Vicar of Rome administers the diocese in the name of its Bishop-the Pope. This exchange of visits is the first that has taken place since 1887, when Prince Torlonia, then Mayor of Rome, made a similar visit to the Cardinal Vicar...
...Nicholas F. Burke of 5 Langdon street, Cambridge, doorkeeper at the Widener Library, and a former member of the Cambridge Board of Aldermen, died suddenly of heart failure at his post in the vestibule of the Library yesterday morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. Burke, who has been a member of the Library staff for three years, was about 70 years of age. Some time previously he had had an attack of paralysis...
...City Club, which includes many prominent men of New York, has gently reminded the public that the housing problem still exists, and that conviction of grafters will not of itself produce homes. It has published a letter to the Board of Aldermen asking for the immediate passage of an ordinance backing up a plan made possible by law, exempting taxation on new buildings to the extent of $10,000 per family. This would aid chiefly the construction of moderately priced homes, though all new houses would profit somewhat. This may or may not be the best solution, but there...