Word: councillor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After tossing his hat into the political ring for the first time, Martin J. Hansberry 3L found that he had gained a seat as Councillor-at-large in Waltham when final ballots were tabulated Tuesday night...
Despite this friendly admonition from K. P. Chen, Shanghai banker and nonpartisan State Councillor, and similar advice from other well-informed Chinese, Time Inc.'s Nanking correspondent, Frederick Gruin, went (by air, truck and afoot) to China's huge, little-known, mineral-and-oil-rich Sin kiang province on the borders of Outer Mongolia and, with luck, came back with his story. Those of you who read TIME'S account of it in the October 6 issue know that the story turned out to be another important piece in the pattern of Soviet encirclement of China...
...Right and Left, who have denounced him as a prominent but typical bourgeois. But to Mann, this insult is a compliment, because he believes that it was precisely the bourgeois soil of the 18th and 19th Centuries that nourished the traditions he most admires. Goethe, a dutiful privy councillor of Saxe-Weimar as well as a world poet; Tolstoy, a schoolteaching aristocrat who tried to look like a simple peasant-these men were cradled by the "bourgeois ideal of individual human universality...
According to William J. Bender, councillor for Veterans, an influx of more than 3,000 married veterans this autumn has sent the anticipated number of accompanying offspring well above the original estimates...
...high cost building temporary houses for veterans has made the proposed acquisition by the city of Cambridge of the University owned Botanical Gardens-Observatory site doubtful, Michael J. Neville, City Councillor, told the Cambridge League of Women Voters yesterday...