Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the mayor of Cambridge during the city's first reform years in 1941 and 1942, Sennott was always independent of the Cambridge Civic Association--a non-partisan reform organization...
American public school teachers and American indians are closely related; every once in a long while some civic minded citizen will lodge a protest against the perennial hardships and injustices done to one or the other or both...
...altar pieces for palazzi and churches. As "Jacopo Bassano," he was once ranked with such contemporary greats as Titian and Tintoretto. But by later generations his fame had clouded, and he was considered just a gifted but uneven craftsman of the Venetian School. The exhibit in Bassano's Civic Museum showed...
Happily, two Cambridge Civic Association city councillors, Crane and Deguglielmo, had long since adjusted their eyesight to the halo's glare. As politicians, they knew far better than the despairing Herald that efficiency and honesty are no more than first steps to good government. Happily, too, the man they helped elect has equally keen eyes...
...career, he had been threatened with dismissal, but no one took these threats seriously because Cambridge was reforming in earnest and the city's expenditures had to be slashed, but more important Atkinson was backed up by a maority of the "good government" councillors--those endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Assocition...