Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern continued, week after week, until the inevitable happened; Atkinson announced the new tax rate with a jump of nine dollars. The Mayor, Joseph E. Degulielmo '29, who opposed reappointment, called a special session of the council for August 4, reportedly to discuss rent controls...
...Atkinson's bid for reappointment had been continually tabled by the Council from the time it should have been acted upon--last January. Every Monday until the remarkable ouster, some councillors moved Atkinson's reappointment to the $20,000 yearly managership, and every Monday the majority solemnly refused to consider the motion...
...Master of the art of government, Cambridge has flourished under his genial management." That was the citation of the honorary degree presented by Harvard to Cambridge City Manager John B. Atkinson several years ago. He had ruled Cambridge always with efficiency, sometimes with arrogance, and sometimes with shortsightedness, through a tempestuous decade of reform...
...special session, he made a dosperate bid for peace with the hostile councillors. He appointed the brother of Councillor Edward A. Sullivan to the water board (although Sullivan said later his brother was number one man on Civil Service rating and had been stymied for six months because of Atkinson's refusal to appoint him) and Mayor Deguglielmo's brother to the Housing Authority...
...French number. Whatever Eartha chose to give them, the crowd paid her back with devout attention. Her nightclub act was proving just as much a hit as her Broadway debut last month in New Faces of 1952, which drew from the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson the fervent report: "Eartha Kitt not only looks incendiary . . . she can make a song burst into flame...