Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over 11,000 signatures, was blocked by the Council on trivial technical ground. Mr. McNamara, president of the body, declared that Cambridge "was not going to be turned into a laboratory of guinea pigs for a lot of theorists" and sat down on his political haunches. Even when the ballot law commission certified the petition of Saturday, Mr. McNamara refused to call a special meeting because of an "interfering" ordinance. Mayor Lyons also did his part: to Dean Landis's plea that he call a meeting, as chief executive, he answered that he was "on his way to Maine." Finally...
...green land of Eire cities like Dublin, Cork, and Limerick have profited by this form of government. With everything in its favor, Cambridge voters should give careful, consideration to the referendum which now, by the grace of the Plan E Committee, will be placed upon the November ballot. They should see that a city manager is a better way of getting more for their money...
...weeks after her primary vote, Maryland last week finally succeeded in choosing her Democratic nominee for Governor. When more than two men in a party seek this office, Maryland voters are asked to indicate their second choices on primary ballots. The nomination itself is voted by county delegates, thus instructed, at a State convention. Even after second-choice votes were counted at last week's convention in Baltimore, neither Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore nor Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor had a clear majority. The seven delegates of Prince Georges County broke the deadlock, swung...
Last minute appeals and objections before the State Ballot Commission at the State House yesterday apparently blocked the chances of Plan E, city manager form of government for Cambridge, for submission to the voters next month...
...plan involves a City Manager type of administration and proportional representation. Tomorrow is the last day on which the petition for its inclusion on the November ballot may be legally filed in order to comply with the 30 day rule...