Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted to abolish prostitution, but he was dissuaded by Rome's aldermen, who argued that expulsion of all the city's prostitutes and pimps would cut the population clean in half...
...week's end, Labor had resorted to finagling to keep control of the city government. The city government includes, in addition to the councilors, 21 aldermen elected by the council. Under a small-type clause in the council's constitution...
Labor proposed to bring in a chairman from the outside who could swing the aldermen to the Laborites...
...face of all the pious opposition, the Trois-Rivières aldermen decided that maybe the old by-law had better be enforced. That meant that, whatever their bathing costumes, boys & girls, men & wives, would swim alone-or else...
...Donegal. Warming their Irish faces at the front tables with Illinois' Governor Dwight Green, were Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelley, Judge Tom Courtney and Federal Judge Philip Sullivan (of Sewell A very-Montgomery Ward fame). Behind them were droves of Chicago's Irish cops and aldermen, and even a scattering of priests. They liked it best when Regan swung into The Same Old Shillelagh, brandishing a shellacked stick which was not the old shillelagh that his father brought from Irrreland. At the Stevens, Phil had suddenly to fill in for Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie...