Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader whose primary interests are character and narrative will find the book clear to his reading. From all walks of life a variety of figures illustrates the thesis: Alderman Mrs. Beddows, the shrewd and courageous old lady, triumphant over an unhappy marriage; Lydia Holly, the intelligent and unfortunate daughter of an old rogue whose impecunious family lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord...
...hour before the broadcast some 100 patriotic and prosperous members of the National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the sidewalk with small U. S. flags and placards lettered SMASH COMMUNISM and BROWDER IS BORING FROM WITHIN...
...situation reached its boiling point when it became known that Mildred Gerber's sponsor was Alderman Arvey, chairman of the Council Finance Committee and chief booster of a $15,000 grant which the Opera hopes to get from the city, in return for a radio program supposed to glorify Chicago and its music. Such a gift was badly needed to meet Longone's payroll but the thought of it infuriated many a Chicago taxpayer. Most newspapers were wary with their comments, partly because Mayor Edward J. Kelly is one of Longone's backers and the Opera...
...were blatantly unqualified for the roles they were given. Blonde Jean Tennyson, wife of President Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America, starred in Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter at Virginia Pemberton who as Micaela in Carmen gave the season's most inept performance. In Carmen...
...occult that New York Representative Samuel Dickstein should have risen in Congress latt week to call Realmleader Hitler a madman, a mur derer and the protagonist of an insane theory of government. They saw the in visible hand of Jewry in a proposal by a New York City alderman to forbid public showing of the swastika. To Germans, however, it was thrilling to read of the prompt, virile reaction of hyphenated German-Americans in New York to Mayor LaGuardia. "We are prepared to meet violence with violence!" roared the Fuhrer of the Friends of New Germany in South Brooklyn. Karl...