Word: brennan
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Daniel J. Brennan Jr., son of the late Cambridge police chief, organized and headed the winning slate. He has worked in City Hall and knew just what kind of tactics would win in this part of Cambridge. A sophomore at Boston University, Brennan got three of his former Little League teammates to join him on the ballot: Anthony McI. Glavin '68, Roger O'Sullivan, a junior at Boston State, and Brendon Synnott, a senior at Boston State. The four students all finished in the first six places. Brennan balanced the rest of the slate with Mrs. Barbara Armistead, a Cambridge...
...Brennan slate's one-month, low-keyed campaign involved phone calling, neighborhood stumping, and electioneering at the poll booths. A printed disc with the names of the slate's members and the number of the appropriate polling-machine lever was its only campaign literature. The majority of voters at the polls seemed generally pleased to see college students and housewives at the polls. Their pleasant appearance put the crusty-looking opponents on the defensive. "Members of the incumbent slate there seemed like caricatures," a young housewife who had come to vote for McCarthy commented. "They all looked alike with those...
...doubt the large turnout of McCarthy supporters indirectly aided the Brennan group. But it was probably their freshness that decisively influenced the voters. "The ward elections throughout Cambridge illustrated a widespread desire for new faces," observed Herbert F. Mattson, a popular new state Democratic committeeman who just won his position by a 4-1 margin. According to Mattson, the city and ward committees are traditionally do-nothing and lackadasical, and the election results were a reaction to this practice...
...significant are ward committees anyway? Not very. The committees, which have four-year terms, do send delegates to the state Democratic convention in 1970. (Brennan's group in Ward 9, for example, will probably send three delegates to the convention in 1970 based on the ward's democratic voting totals in the last guber-natorial contest). Otherwise, the committees have little legal force except deciding some minor patronage jobs: they nominate polling place officers to the City Election Commissioners...
...thing, the court held 24 years ago in Prince v. Massachusetts, a child-labor-law case, that "the power of the state to control the conduct of children reaches beyond the scope of its authority over adults." And Brennan added last week that "the well-being of its children is of course a subject within the state's constitutional power to regulate." He also pointed out that New York's "prohibition does not bar parents who so desire from purchasing the magazines for their children." As to whether or not girlie magazines and similar material actually impair...