board of aldermen
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The workhouse has been a fraught subject in St. Louis, and the city’s board of aldermen approved a plan last summer to close it by the end of 2020.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2021
Just before the Russia trip, Mr. Sanders told the board of aldermen, Burlington’s municipal legislature, that he hoped it would reduce the risk of armed conflict.
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2020
But he was inseparable from New York City, having been the sheriff of Manhattan, president of the city’s board of aldermen and later the governor.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2019
He endorsed a gay candidate for Chicago’s board of aldermen in 1951.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019
The board of aldermen was, apparently, most indifferent of all, and refused to talk of the new sensation either to reporters or to any one else,—except among themselves when no outsiders were near.
From A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day by Winslow, Helen M. (Helen Maria)
