Word: councillors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Hildegard Brucher, 28-year old city councillor thinks she is the only German student who had to be persuaded to come to Harvard this year under a U. S. government scholarship...
...increase in the present bounty of a half ana (1?) for each rat caught. Others objected that if the bounty were raised, it would pay the city's poor to go into the business of rat-raising and Bombay would wind up with more rats than ever. Councillor Gordhandas Goculdas Moraji, an orthodox Hindu, shuddered at even considering rat extermination during the current festival in honor of Ganapati (Ganesha), an elephant-headed god who likes to ride around on a rat (see cut). Councillor Dinkar Dattatrya gave what he called the "socialist theory on rats": he declared that "only...
...Butch Jordan the Crimson has itself a paradox for a line coach. He is a paradox in personality, for it is not often that one finds a Big Nine heavyweight wrestling champion who doubles as a family man and a part-time camp councillor. He is a paradox as a coach, for he teaches the Michigan philosophy of speedy, quick line play, but himself is the epitome of the classic block-of-granite tackle...
...seats, now paying the price of cooperation with Hitler, were playing the same drama as if they were still in it. "Please, Herr Oberregierungsrat," requested the ex-judge, "will you have the kindness to hand me that shovel?" "With the greatest of pleasure, Your Excellency," replies the ex-ministerial councillor...
...Councillor-at-large is not a full-time job, and thus his duties on the Waltham Council will wreak no havoc with Hansberry's tough Law School grind, for his only legislative task will consist of meetings every Monday evening...