Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked one newsman: Is Ike "officially" a candidate? Said Lodge: "I don't know quite what you mean. He isn't like a candidate for Boston alderman." Then he added: "I know he is not running in the New Hampshire primary just for the exercise." After Lodge kept suggesting that they check with Ike to substantiate his statements, one reporter objected: "What if we don't get an answer in Paris?" Ex-Newspaperman Lodge laughed. "You've got a story either way," he said...
Prevented from cheering the President personally, the club sent Kansas City's beefy Alderman Thomas J. Gavin around to give him its Christmas present-a $275 gold cigarette lighter, which, club members happily reported, had been bought wholesale for $150. "It's real solid gold," Gavin told non-smoker Truman. "Don't give it away, Harry...
When Crane served as alderman in 1939, he faced an inefficient self-seeking government which operated under the Plan B system of a weak 15-man council and a strong mayor. During this time, popular indignation against the city hall gang swelled and when the mayor went to jail, voters demanded reform. The result was a Cambridge Civic Association which instituted extensive municipal changes, including a new system of administration for Massachusetts--Plan E, a weak 9-man council, mayor, and city manager. The Cambridge Civic Association refused to back any of the old Council members, except Crane. "I guess...
...Offensive. In Toronto, Alderman Roy Belyea complained to the Board of Controls that something would have to be done about the growing starling population which has some residents afraid to venture forth without carrying their umbrellas...
...problem. His own reputation for honesty was widely respected, but graft still bit deep into the city's pockets, and Kennelly did little to control the politics-ridden city council. "The 'take' in the city is just as great as it ever was," said one alderman, "but it has been decentralized...