Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly did New York City voice its confidence in Tammany, however, that for the first time in Tammany history there was but one Republican returned to the Board of Aldermen ? Joseph Clark Baldwin III, young, earnest and rich. Usually there are at least four or five G. 0. P. aldermen. Sending Mr. Baldwin alone to the Board was tantamount to sending him to political Coventry. He is the board's minority leader and auto matically a member of 13 committees. But he can introduce no measures, having no one to second them. If he rises to a point...
This week slim little James John Walker officially ceased to be Mayor of the City of New York. Into his job with its full power of appointment and dismissal stepped Joseph Vincent McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen. Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for more than 30 days loses his office. Mayor Walker sailed for Europe Aug. 3. If Mayor McKee were not a reliable Tammany Democrat, he could turn the Municipal government topsy-turvy before Mr. Walker returns late this month, gets back the job to which he was elected...
Last week a group of Chicago aldermen decided that there had been too many tag days in their city. They planned a reductio ad absurdum. At one session of the City Council they got their drowsy colleagues to ordain tag days for the following: The Brewers' & Bartenders' Union; Tom, Dick & Harry, unemployed; ex-King Alfonso;* the Chicago White Sox (which has lowest standing in the American League). When the drowsy aldermen discovered how they had been tagged, the ordinances were revoked...
...election was only for municipal aldermen. But as a straw vote of the national issue of Monarchy v. Republic it was terrific, carried more than a possibility that the straw would flame up in revolution. Said Prime Minister Admiral Aznar, "Disastrous?that was what I told His Majesty. When a Monarchistic country turns Republican within twenty-four hours, the crisis is enough for anyone...
...traffic signal plans for Chicago, Kansas City, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, revealed that in many cases small towns or store districts desired lights merely for the purpose of adding prestige to their localities. In one extreme instance 45 sets of signals were equally distributed among the aldermen of a certain town to be handed out for political gain. Education of the public, however, is quickly doing away with such conditions...