Word: councilman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor, lost the vote of William Winston ("Bill") Roper, famed Princeton football coach. Mr. Roper who, away from Princeton, is a Philadelphia councilman from the Germantown district, announced that he would bolt his party to support John M. Hemphill, Democratic nominee, because he was a thoroughgoing Wet. Bolter Roper managed the 1922 primary campaign which won Mr. Pinchot his first term as governor...
...clerk stopped droning. A little councilman named Walz hopped to his feet, demanded Mr. Hopkins' immediate dismissal. He offered no formal charges. A few letters, mostly favoring Mr. Hopkins, were read. The clerk droned a formula. The vote: for dismissal, 14; against...