Word: councilman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Americana (the "villa" was officially dropped in the 19303), now a snug and thriving little (pop. 10,000) industrial town, opened a new $6,500,000 hydroelectric plant to power its mills, synthetic fertilizer factories, distilleries and farm-machinery assembly plant. Dr. Jones, who is also a city councilman, was one of those on hand to greet Sao Paulo's beefy, ambitious Governor Adhemar de Barros and the planeload of federal officials who flew in for the inauguration of the power plant...
...dominant whites and 8,000,000 subordinate blacks-reached an ultimate. In gold-mining Klerksdorp, at the request of the local Handelskamer (Chamber of Commerce), the town council agreed to provide separate hearses for the two races. It was unpleasant and unhealthy to contemplate, explained Councilman D. J. Piennar, that a hearse bearing a black corpse to the cemetery might next day be used to carry a white man's coffin...
...referendum to change the city's charter from Plan B to Plan A. Under the new plan, the city council would be reduced from 22 to 9 members and each election year a run-off primary would be held to reduce the field of candidates for mayor, councilman and school committeeman to two. Most important, the new charter would permit the council to override the veto of the mayor on all bills except loans and appropriations, by a two-thirds vote. Since this is the only referendum on the ballot, there is a very strong likelihood that it will...
Prior to Plan E, Cambridge voted for its Councilmen through 11 wards. Each Councilman looked after the interests of his own district at City Hall and saw to it that the school janitor who had been so helpful in getting out the vote got a promotion and perhaps a bonus at Christmas...
...third circuit court of appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands), thus became the first Negro appointed to the second highest court in the federal system. Able Governor Hastie got his advancement in the same week that a college classmate got a sharp reverse: Manhattan Councilman Ben Davis, the other outstanding Negro member of the Amherst Class of 1925, was one of the eleven convicted Communist leaders...