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Word: councillor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Cambridge City Council met Tuesday night to hear Councillor John J. Toomey attack Harvard and Radcliffe as a "half-far passenger, with a special privilege pass, on the omnibus of municipal progress," and when it ordered rotund Mayor John W. Lyons to appoint a committee of citizens to discuss taxes and "other pertinent issues" with University officials, it was reviving a question that has long been a monkey-wrench in Harvard-Cambridge relations...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Tax-Exemption Controversy Revived By City Council; Negotiations Seen | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

Justice Qua's ruling may affect the registration of some 30 graduate students who were personally challenged by Councillor Michael J. Sullivan. Although the law prohibits students to vote because they are only temporary residents, Dailey was able to prove he intended to live here and was self-supporting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURT RULING WILL LET LAW STUDENTS VOTE IN CAMBRIDGE | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

DAVID M. GRANT Assistant City Councillor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...Lincoln was able to jest at his own failures is indicated in a humorous business card he had printed up following one of his political defeats. The card reads: "A Lincoln, Attorney and Councillor at Law, Springfield, Ill. To Whom It May Concern. My old customers and others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abe Lincoln's Rail-Splitting Axe Is Shown in Widener Civil War Exhibit | 3/3/1937 | See Source »

...originally wanted Packards), but Chauffeur Ladbrooke had had enough. The same applied to distinguished Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge, the anti-Simpsonite whom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin forced upon King Edward as Private Secretary in the early days of the reign and later caused to be made a Privy Councillor. Last week exhausted Major Hardinge was beginning a three-months rest, before returning to be Private Secretary to King George VI. Back in Buckingham Palace to the joy of all concerned was good and great Lord Wigram, for 25 years private secretary to King George V. Lord Wigram will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woman of the Year | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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