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...following Wednesday, the Cambridge City Council and the Board of Aldermen tabled all regular business and met in joint session to listen to Mayor James A. Fox, who issued a proclamation declaring Monday, October 3 a public holiday and urged the people of Cambridge "to unite in a testimonial to the martyred president." "Never, at least since the death of Lincoln, has there been such general absorption in a public question," the Cambridge Chronicle declared between its black borders. Indeed, the weekly Chronicle devoted a large portion of its two news and commentary pages to the matter. In addition...
Francis Bakey, Ward 2 alderman, and his opponent Edward Hardy traded charges last week over the Board of Aldermen's approval of the proposal last July...
Cambridge city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci told the Somerville aldermen they should adopt tough DNA regulations at a public hearing last month. The GI facility would have been built near Cambridge...
Somerville mayor Eugene Brune and a Somerville alderman, Frank Bakey, will hold a public hearing on the issue tomorrow night, Ed Bean, Brune's press secretary, said yesterday. He added that Brune would also submit an ordinance patterned after Cambridge's statute to the aldermen tomorrow night...
...fortunate. Because white workers often refused to work side by side with Blacks, "a Black man would have had an easier time getting into Harvard than obtaining a job in the factory." Sutton says. A few succeeded--Clement Morgan became the first Black on the Cambridge Board of Aldermen near the turn of the century. Most, though, didn't even bother to finish high school, realizing the training would not make it any easier to find jobs. "On the whole," one historian explains, "there is a deep-seated feeling that it is useless to attend school because of the impossibility...