Word: councillor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember Mickey "The Dude" Sullivan, the City Councillor? He's plying around in Harvard Yard again...
Back in August 1943, Jerusalem's Arab mayor, Mustapha Bey Khalidi, died in office. Jewish Councillor Daniel Auster automatically became acting mayor, pending a permanent appointment. Jews, constituting two-thirds of the city's population and taxpayers, demanded that Auster be confirmed. Arabs demanded that another Arab succeed the late lamented mayor...
...Birmingham carpenter who became city councillor and justice of the peace, Mgr. Griffin served in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I, later became a priest. He was educated in England and Rome. His outstanding work in smoky Birmingham has been guiding the Father Hudson Homes for Children, one of Britain's largest orphanages. Birmingham folk also know the wiry, redheaded clergyman for his street preaching. For years he went every Saturday night to the "Bull Ring" (Birmingham's Hyde Park), where he sturdily traded verbal punches with hecklers...
Protégé of onetime Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, later Councillor of Embassy at Vichy, Minister Murphy had helped to organize the fifth column that eased the way for the Allied North African landings. The connections he established then made it difficult for him to form unbiased judgments. He erred in underestimating the strength of De Gaullism, and therefore the strength of De Gaulle. He erred in supposing that even an imprisoned people could be ignored in the choice of their leaders. Perhaps he supposed that General Catroux could be weaned from support of De Gaulle. Now he appeared...
These words must have sounded familiar in the ears of Knight and Privy Councillor Sir Stafford Cripps. Few individuals in the last quarter century of British politics have moved in & out of the limelight so erratically. Said the Manchester Guardian in 1937: "He has some of the higher qualities of leadership-character, disinterestedness, courage, sincerity, and a certain aloofness. He is a thoroughly unskillful politician; he has been in politics for eight years and is still inexperienced; he has made more 'gaffes' than any of his contemporaries...