Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit for the 1952 showing goes to a spectacular get-out-the-vote drive sparked by American Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan agency. Beginning last June, the foundation (chairman: New York Banker Winthrop Aldrich; vice chairman A.F.L. President William Green) went hammer & tongs to obtain the cooperation of civic groups, broadcasters, editors, educators, cartoonists, advertisers...
...meeting of the Dunster House Committee Fair decided against the plea of the House "Civic Improvement" Committee to leave the river gates open all night...
...public had seldom been so enthusiastically belabored by the public-spirited and the civic-minded. Except in Minnesota, which bars transportation of voters as a corrupt practice, there was hardly a city in which a voter could not get a lift to the polls just by picking up < his telephone. In some towns he could get a free taxi ride, and in Rochester, N.Y. an ambulance was his for the asking, even if he wasn't sick. Orange City, Iowa blew its fire siren every hour on the hour to remind the apathetic that...
...University showing of Birth had scarcely been announced when the rumble that terrorized the Boston City Censor last year, started again. City Hall got some phone calls. Just a few, but they were enough to stir spectres of domestic insurrection--or at least political repercussions--in the minds of civic authorities. As a result, the City Fathers say they must make sure opposition will not be violent before they license tonight's showing...
...Birth of a Nation" should not be banned tonight, according to Cambridge's official advisers on race relations. At a meeting yesterday afternoon, the Executive Board of the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee decided to recommend to City Manager John J. Curry that the controversial film be licensed for showing...