Word: councilman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York bar in 1908, and since then has practiced in New York City. From 1908 to 1910 he was assistant United States attorney of the Southern district of New York; in the following two years, he was assistant district attorney of New York county. After being a councilman in the Aldermanic Police. Investigation of New York City for a year, he became a member of the law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner, and Howland. In 1925 he was appointed by President Coolidge as United States district attorney for the Southern district of New York. He is a member...
Born in Pennsylvania 60 years ago, a Cleveland City Councilman before he was 30, Mr. Hopkins in 1924 left successful business enterprises which had amply enriched him to become Cleveland's first manager. Three times in almost three years Cleveland citizens have been asked to vote down the city manager plan by Harry Lyman Davis, onetime Governor of Ohio and mayor of Cleveland, who sought to restore "the city government to the people" - and the politicians. To the defense of Manager Hopkins' government flocked the women. They campaigned for him. made house-to-house canvasses...
Councilmen rose, started to worm their way out through the crowd. A woman called Mr. Walmsley a dirty name. A man clouted him in the stomach. He hit back. A free-for-all fight started. One councilman was knocked almost unconscious by a blow on the neck. The crowd became a mob. Into the affray waded Police Captain Henry Melson, unpopular with the strikers for his "rough stuff." Up went the cry: "Get Melson!'' He was "gotten"- crushed to the floor, kicked, cuffed, pounded, pummeled. He drew his gun, fired shots along the floor, hit two legs...
...Ambassador Hotel. The executive council made inspections, heard explanations and descriptions. Plain men themselves, they were puzzled by the artistic conceptions of Labor placed before them. Cried President William Green: "I'm wearied of always seeing Labor pictured bearing a burden. Labor is free." Remarked another troubled councilman: "Some of these would be all right if the sculptor could be chained to the job to tell people what it's all about. But what could be done when he died...
...banquet celebrated Mr. Weber's election as eighth vice president and executive councilman of the American Federation of Labor. Among the celebrants were printers, upholsterers, teamsters, longshoremen, actors, men who play the oboe, others who play the market. Mr. Weber had news to impart about the ousting of cinema theatre orchestras by the "talkies," which constitutes Organized Music's most pressing problem (TIME...