Word: chairmanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest T. Berkley was named Chairman of Common Room Activities, Stephen I. Rudin Chairman of Union Activities, Daniel J. Young Chairman of Union Athletic Committee, John S. Herman Chairman of the Union Dance Committee, Richard E. Johnson Secretary of the Union Committee, George C. Vlahos Representative to the Crimson Key Society, and Paul M. Marbry and Richard T. Povill Representative to the Student Council...
Promptly at 9:05 p.m. the chairman got things off to an early start. He introduced himself. This took 20 minutes: time to allow the hall to fill, and for him to enumerate his attributes. The most important of these was that he was born in East Cambridge, was brought up in East Cambridge, went to school in East Cambridge, and still loves East Cambridge and what East Cambridge stands for. In Cambridge this is all good...
...audience, which contained many residents of East Cambridge cheered. The chairman then raised his voice a third in pitch and began his attack on the opposition...
...true that the man was in jail. But that wasn't the point at all. "And do you know why? For helping illiterates, that's why." After explaining what an illiterate is, the speaker went on. "For helping illiterates," the chairman emphasized. The audience, now in the spirit of things, was muttering, displeased over such an injustice. A little louder, the speaker explained that the poor victim of good government had only been enabling these illiterates to exercise their FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO VOTE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. He had registered for them. Thus there was no doubt left that good government...
...East Cambridge. He explained the boundaries of East Cambridge, which include the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Drainage canal, another railroad and the Charles River, and showed how the proposed change would destroy the basis for the well-being of its citizens. The audience loudly agreed, and the chairman returned...