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...only did the Cambridge Civic Association lose control of the School Committee in the November sixth election, but it nearly lost control of the City Council as well. This does not mean that Cambridge voters tired of the CCA as a reform organization; it means that they were dissatisfied with the CCA as a slate of candidates...
...what seems to have been a mood of gross overconfidence, the CCA included only a few strong candidates among the thirteen it endorsed for the City Council and the School Committee. As a result, the voters elected the strong candidates with overwhelming majorities, but either by-passed the weaker ones altogether or placed them well down on the winners list...
Today counting begins for the School Committee of sex members. In the present committee the CCA has three endorsed members...
...City Council, in order of election: Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 (CCA), Edward J. Sullivan (Ind) and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 (CCA), Hyman Pill (CCA), Francis L. Sennott (Ind), John J. Foley (Ind), John D. Lynch ((Ind) Chester A. Higley (CCA) W. Donnision Swan '19 (CCA). The only new councillor is Sennott, who was Cambridge's last mayor under the former system of government--Plan A. Cambridge now has Plan E. with a city manager and a nine man council...
...only threat to the CCA majority came Friday night when the independents received a large number of firsts. However, when first choices were counted out, and seconds and thirds tabulated Saturday morning the CCA picked up enough to place a majority...