Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Larry's first real election night party--the first time in a life of anticipation when it had been his name on the ballot, his career at stake, his friends and workers gathered to watch the numbers come trickling in. DiCara was having the time of his life--as he clearly had had during the entire campaign. Around him were the key people in his all-volunteer campaign staff: his sister, Jenny DiCara. Guenther, his campaign manager, crouched over the phone barking figures and winking at faces in the crowd with some of Larry's own elan. Chip Moore, another...
...kept an initiative to establish rent controls in Cambridge off the ballot, on the grounds that Massachusetts laws contained no provisions for city rent controls. (In the following year, such a law was passed and the City Council established controls for Cambridge...
...group circulating this year's rent control initiative petition has filed suit to prevent city officials from taking action "that tends to delay, hinder or obstruct the appearance of the rent control initiative on the ballot." Named specifically in the suit are the four Cambridge Election Commissioners, City Manager James Corcoran and Cronin...
...city official has yet stated that he or she would move to keep the initiative off the ballot if the 3500 signatures were obtained...
...White-Hicks victory in the preliminary elections puts their two names on the ballot and sets the stage for a tough rematch in the general mayoralty elections on November...