Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark Hoover, Belgium's Wartime Relief Administrator, with fulsome editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait of the late great King Albert, but dedicated to Herbert Hoover...
Down the centuries the name Morrice became Moris, Morres, Morys, then changed to Morris before the present Lord Numeld was born in Cowley. His identified ancestors include mayors, aldermen, country squires, judges, surgeons. Nuffield's father was a Hurst's Grammar School man, but the great philanthropist himself attended only the village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought...
...which they had been sitting for 24 days. They had just completed a count of 2,013,101 ballots. It had been going on since November 5, the longest and biggest counting job ever undertaken in any U. S. city. New York had replaced its old board of aldermen with a new city council, and the council's members were the first city officials ever to be elected by proportional representation. A few days before, counters in the four other boroughs had finished their share of the job. The preferential ballot is conceived so that if a voter...
...which Tammany's late board of estimate refused to appropriate $2,000.000. they claimed that P. R. ballots might be disposed of in one day. That Tammany was as overrepresented as it seemed, they also denied, recalling that two years ago the Democrats elected 95% of the aldermen with 66% of the vote, that in 1931 the 35% of non-Democratic voters got only one alderman out of 65. It was also probably true that many Democrats voted for the Fusion mayor. Democratic councilmen...
What neither side denied, however, was that P. R.'s 26 councilmen, who will enjoy more power to originate legislation than the old board of aldermen, were a far fresher and more prepossessing crew than the aldermen they will replace. Council President Newbold Morris, a highly respectable Wall Street lawyer of 35 whose tie vote will belong to Mayor LaGuardia and Fusion, can look down over his gavel at two sturdy old revolutionaries. Russian-born Baruch Charney Vladeck, last week slated to be the council's minority leader, is now general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward...