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Word: cca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Councillor Saundra Graham ran on the CCA platform in her first campaign two years ago. She is now helping establish the Grass Roots Organization (GRO), which seems to be to the CCA's left...

Author: By Travis P. dungan, | Title: Cambridge: A Long History Of Divisiveness | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...Cambridge politics established groups find it as easy to have fallings-out as do Independents. Although the voters elected a CCA majority to the City Council in 1971 the slate fell apart shortly after it took office in January...

Author: By Travis P. dungan, | Title: Cambridge: A Long History Of Divisiveness | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...group reneged on its campaign pledge to fire City Manager John Corcoran, who one CCA councillor had described as a "political hack." The CCA councillors were divided over their choice for a new City manager for nine months. They could not come to a compromise...

Author: By Travis P. dungan, | Title: Cambridge: A Long History Of Divisiveness | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

Vice-Mayor Henry Owens preferred another candidate and refused to bend. All CCA had personally pledged to "consult together earnestly and in good faith" and "to vote together" on the new City manager, but Corcoran is still in City Hall...

Author: By Travis P. dungan, | Title: Cambridge: A Long History Of Divisiveness | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...mayor of Cambridge is CCA-endorsed Barbara Ackerman, a Smith alumna and housewife with ten years of elective municipal posts behind her. She chaired the City's Committee on Transportation which successfully battled the State Department of Public Works over several unsightly gargantuan expressways that would have exacerbated the city's housing crisis...

Author: By Travis P. dungan, | Title: Cambridge: A Long History Of Divisiveness | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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