Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garry went into politics at the age of 12, when he rang doorbells for his father, who was an alderman in Chicago's Eighth Ward. He also learned to lay brick (and still carries a union card), but for more than 30 years Chicago's brand...
...represent the meeting of the Mississippi and the Missouri, is known officially as the Meeting of the Waters, locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony. Last week a crowd of 2,000 saw the fountain unveiled at last. Speakers were Mayor Bernard Dickmann, Mrs. Aloe (widow of the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe), Sculptor Milles himself. When the white, sheetlike veils were removed and the water shot 90 ft. into the air, wetting Sculptor Milles and a surrounding bevy of flower-toting ladies, everybody cheered. Conspicuously absent were Chairman Francis D. Healy and Tailor Hubert Hoef-linger, dissenting members...
Professor Merriam has taught political science at the University of Chicago since 1900. He has been an alderman in Chicago for six years, has been president of the American Political Science Association, and president of the Social Science Research Council, and has been a member of the National Resources Board...
...weeks later the new Waukegan Post appeared on the street. Only name on the masthead was Frank T. Fowler, listed as director. A onetime Chicago alderman, onetime manager of Waukegan's chamber of commerce, publisher of another short-lived Waukegan journal, 72-year-old Frank Fowler had been living in Tarpon Springs, Fla. until he came back to take charge of the Post...