Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro Alderman A. B. Whitlock did not insinuate that Ku Klux Klannism lay behind the Emerson strike. Instead, he firmly said: "This [appropriation] is a useless expenditure of the taxpayers' money. We have plenty of room now for all the schoolchildren of Gary. This money [$15,000] wouldn't equip a shack, and the site you propose is in a wilderness. There are no streets, no sewers, no facilities there...
...received newsgatherers. They noted a small rotundity under his natty waistcoat. He admitted his receptions had been bounteous. "If this keeps up much longer," he said, "I shall have to finish my vacation in a hospital. ... I will soon be developed enough around the middle to qualify for an alderman. . . . When I get my feet under my desk at the City Hall, I will give the New Yorkers more service than they ever had before...
...suddenly of heart disease; in his Broadway office, Manhattan. Thirty-six years ago his father, Charles Pratt, died of heart disease in offices at the same address. Mrs. Ruth S. Pratt, widow of John Teele Pratt, is the first and only woman to function as a New York City alderman...
...What's the big idea?" argued Alderman T. J. Byrne, opposed. "Nobody who is dead is in a hurry to get anywhere." Mayor William Hale Thompson ruled the bill defeated...
...extend the advantages of a liberal university to many classes, and not only to select young bloods such as needy Poet Poe found and tried to live up to at Virginia, that President Alderman strove from the first for a bigger university. Now his appeal to the intelligent farming class, of which Virginia like the whole country has great need, will be fortified...