Word: councilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message. Then Shrotel resigned. At the same time, the city was in growing terror of a rapist-strangler who had claimed three victims (TIME, Oct. 21).* Major crime was up more than 25% over the previous year. "Just what the hell is going on around here?" thundered Republican City Councilman Jake Held. "What we used to call a crime wave is now accepted as a way of life. This is intolerable." Held opened a six-week hearing. At the end of it, he had some inescapably specific suggestions for the city council: an immediate $1,000 raise...
...Negroes had ousted the corruption-ridden regime of Mayor A. Martin Katz (TIME, April 29, 1966) and nominated one of their own race as the Democratic mayoral candidate in next November's general election. With their support, Richard Hatcher, 33, a bright, articulate lawyer and city councilman, had indeed beaten the machine...
PAUL H. LAMPORT Councilman, 13th District Los Angeles...
...Manhattan's polyglot 19th District, Democrat Leonard Farbstein, a moderate on the war, seeks nomination for a sixth term but faces a rough scrap with City Councilman Theodore Weiss, who demands an end to all bombing in Viet Nam and a U.S. ceasefire...
Even with the new laws, it will obviously be several years before New Yorkers can begin to breathe easily again. "What we're doing is racing to stand still," says Caroline Konheim of the Citizens for Clean Air. Besides, says Councilman Robert Low, who sponsored the new city bill, "once we get New York cleaned up, we'll just begin to realize how bad New Jersey smells...