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...Birth of CCA...
...reform government in Cambridge nearly failed because the Cambridge Committee for Plan E began to lose prestige and power by taking a virtual "holier-than-thou" attitude. The Cambridge Civic Association was founded then and since that time the City Council has been CCA dominated...
...past two years, the seven-member committee has been under a non-CCA majority. A four-man block, consisting of Alfred Vellucci, John Cremes, Francis McCrehan and James Fitzgerald, has pretty much run the committee as it saw fit. The result has been some examples of plain political skullduggery. The most well known, of course, is last fall's notorious "Family Night," when these four men pushed through the appointments of eight people, half of whom were related to committee members. This move was made possible earlier in the year by the amendment of the committee rules to do away...
Luckily, the city has a remarkable opportunity to improve the local school situation in the candidacy of eight highly qualified people on the CCA slate. Seven of the eight are new to committee work, the exception being Mrs. Pearl K. Wise who has been on the group for the past four years. But if they are new to the School Committee as such they are not new to education. Among the seven are Judson T. Shaplin, director of Freshmen Scholarships here and former Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education and George I. Rohrbough, also a professional educator...
Next to the Supreme Court Justices, the most influential judges in the U.S. are those who sit on famed "CCA-2"-the U.S. court of appeals for the second circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont). Last month Chief Judge Thomas Swan retired, at 75, from his $17,500-a-year lifetime seat on that bench. Last week President Eisenhower was getting ready to fill the job-the first important judicial appointment of his Administration. The choice lay between a candidate with top-drawer political credentials and one carrying the blue-ribbon endorsement of leaders of the second circuit's bench...