Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon outraged citizens of Bebington began collecting signatures in Sidney's behalf, to petition the Queen herself. A Socialist alderman charged his colleagues on the town council with "gross injustice...
...wing was-comparatively speaking-as sweet as pie. Paul Robeson busied himself with nothing more provocative than singing 01' Man River. Manhattan's leftist firebrand, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, emitted a few wild yips, but concentrated on a routine target-Harry Truman, whom he described as a "little alderman in a big house...
...famous economist, and a combat veteran himself. But he never got over being sort of sore at injustice, wherever he found it. He was from the beginning a rebel, a reformer, a crusader for the boys at the end of the line. The people of Chicago made him an alderman; in 1948 the voters of Illinois sent him to the U.S. Senate...
About that time a group of university friends asked him to run for city alderman from the town & gown Fifth Ward. To Douglas' stunned surprise, Boss Ed Kelly himself offered the amateur the regular Democratic nomination...
...Some of Them Words." That was in wartime 1942. The next day Alderman Douglas, the man who had been rejected by the Army for poor eyesight in World War I, enlisted as a 50-year-old private in the Marines. He had pulled enough wires with Navy Secretary Frank Knox to get a whole satchelful of waivers. He set off for boot camp at Parris Island...