Word: councilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Councilman Peter Flaherty of Pittsburgh admits: "A lot of people dissatisfied with the party here really don't feel that a Democratic loss this time would be a such a bad thing. They'd regard it as a cleansing operation." Humphrey, suffering from association with the old-line bosses, and Senator Clark, himself in a tough re-election fight, both suffer from this mood...
...machine in Providence and the conservative organization at a state level. With Brown student Leonard O'Brien, chairman of Rhode Island Students for Kennedy, challenging a Doorley candidate in Providence this fall, the liberal move has begun. Leaders of the Coalition are state Sen. Mrs. Eleanor Slater and Newport councilman David Fenton. Sen. John O. Pastore can be expected to aid the old guard if the challenge becomes serious...
...Austin city council and as mayor pro tem. The nonpaying city post wound up costing him money, for Homer's law clients expected him to fix such things as $1 parking tickets, and rather than lose the clients, he paid the fines himself. It was as a city councilman in 1941 that Thornberry first showed his clear commitment to civil rights by fighting to keep two new subdivisions at the edge of Austin from becoming parts of the city unless they dropped clauses barring Jews from living there. Though there was scant political profit in his position, Thornberry helped...
...bird disappeared from the off-campus apartment in which it was residing. No festival. Two graduate students, probably Swarthmore graduates and bitter, who lived upstairs, had casually stolen the bird. Not knowing what to do with it, they handed it over to Alfred E. Vellucci, Cambridge City Councilman, who nabbed prize television time by announcing to the Boston press that it would be presented back to the Lampoon in the Crimson offices on election...
...Labor did work hard, and so did the party leadership's subsequent choice. Red-haired John Joyce Gilligan, 47, a former Congressman and Cincinnati city councilman, whose brains, liberal views and Democratic loyalty prompted the campaign tag, "the real Democrat," campaigned assiduously, while Lausche-in his own words-sometimes "fiddled around...