Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request for a food & liquor license was turned down. She appealed, and when her lawyer, Sydney Wolfe, appeared last week at the city's Zoning Board of Appeals, the Bellevue Place neighbors, the executive director of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association and the 42nd Ward's alderman brought the hearings to a grumbling halt. Most truculent was Mrs. Martha Woodard, 75, operator of four Bellevue Place boardinghouses. She shouted at a reporter, "I don't think we need a bar there. The street'll be crawling with the artistic temperament, with the boys with long...
...England, the city fathers of Manchester fussed and fumed over whether to pay Sculptor Henry Moore a generous ?760 for a lumpy chunk of bronze called Draped Torso, which looked like a vandalized nightgown. Murmured one alderman: "I wish it were a statue of Marilyn Monroe." Sneered a Moore supporter: "This is a work of art." An anti-Moore man retorted: "Is the councilor insinuating that Marilyn Monroe is not a work of art?" Moore's Torso lost the vote...
...Alderman issued orders, screened Knight's phone calls, rode around in a state car. While Knight was out of town, Alderman fired a $10,000-a-year state employee. Another time, Knight had to tell Mrs. Alderman to "go home and tend to her business" when she informed the governor's receptionist of impending dismissal. Again without Knight's knowledge, Alderman got his own 25-year-old son put on the state payroll at $505 a month as assistant to the director of professional and vocational standards, a job for which the young man had no experience...
Last week, with a tape recorder whirring away under his desk, Knight called Alderman on the carpet. Said Knight, later: "I told him that everything said was being recorded, and that the record would show that what he had done was not in the interests of the government...
...Alderman said: 'You think I might be revengeful or bitter?' I said: 'I think you might be.' " By day's end both Alderman and his son had "resigned." Out of office, Alderman seemed more weary than vengeful or bitter. Said he of Knight: "I think he's as tired as I am, and he probably needs a rest too." Alder man said he had broken down his health in Knight's service. He complained specifically of a pain in the sacroiliac - which was pretty much the way Goody Knight felt about...