Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrogance of the Democratic political machine powered for so long by the late mayor Richard J. Daley was more obvious than ever on the eves of last week's primary election. "The machine may not be well , oiled," proclaimed Alderman Vito Marzullo, "but it will never break down. Mayor Bilandic is going to swamp them." But break down...
...city's 50 wards, scoring most heavily in black neighborhoods whose residents blamed Bilandic for a transit authority decision to eliminate several passenger stops so as to serve outlying white areas better. Many residents were also angry at Bilandic's having outmaneuvered black Alderman Wilson Frost, the council's senior member, for the temporary appointment to succeed Daley...
...Alderman, who began her career as a secretary to Carl Reiner, said script writers are dictated to by television executives. Her credits include episodes of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Maude," and she received an Emmy Award nomination for "Lily," a T.V. special on Lily Tomlin...
...typical. More common were dull evenings at high school commencements or jaunts to union meetings at rural hamburger stands. At the Forsyth County Courthouse I heard well-meaning politicians worry about library book thefts and ambulance service. At Winston-Salem's City Hall I watched a gruff old Republican alderman roll his eyes while a fellow board member--a 28-year-old former Black Panther--discussed problems of old people in a housing project...
Still, John Howe's personal unfamiliarity with the assessment process is unusual. Alderman Puglia calls Howe "the most unqualified assessor in the history of Massachusetts." In a deposition under oath during assessment victim Cosmo Capobianco's libel suit against Howe, Howe admitted that he has had "very little" training in the real estate business, and that he did not know the most important and elementary concept an assessor must learn--the three basic methods of appraising the value of real estate...