Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands of one-room cigar makers. Convinced that their livelihood was at stake, these small independents rose last week in rebellion. Many other Cubans joined in their protest. In the central province of Santa Clara, crowds seized 14 town halls, often with the enthusiastic consent of mayors and aldermen. In Placetas, 5,000 marched through the streets shouting: "Down with mechanization...
When a Milwaukee taxicab company once gave each of the city's 27 aldermen an electric blanket for Christmas, most of them gratefully accepted the gift even though the aldermen control taxicab rates. They soon wished they hadn't. Reason: the Milwaukee Journal caught wind of the story, promptly played it on Page One. For Milwaukee, the Journal thought it added up to a major political scandal...
...burgomaster and aldermen got the idea last year when they went to see a modern sculpture show in The Netherlands' Arnhem (pop. 103,666) and came away determined to beat the Dutch. They vowed that it would be "necessary to the renown of Antwerp to do better than is done elsewhere...
...aldermen thereupon got busy assembling one of the most comprehensive shows of 20th Century sculpture ever seen in Europe. Last week it was on exhibit in spacious Middelheim Park. Already a first-rate tourist-catcher, the show would run through September...
...pork chops in half, used the basket as a portable men's room. They bedeviled his witnesses, dug up old ordinances to confound him. Douglas confessed to friends: "I have three degrees. I have been associated with intelligent and intellectual people for many years. Some of these aldermen haven't gone through the fifth grade. But they're the smartest bunch of bastards I ever saw grouped together...