Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smeared with tobacco stains. They warned that if Wake Forest took the money, it might "lose its soul," might even find its name changed to Camel University.* But President Harold Tribble, a Baptist theologian from Charlottesville, paid no heed to the skeptics. He argued and begged at alumni banquets, civic meetings and Baptist groups. He pointed out again & again that the Reynolds Foundation had no intention of trying to run the college or change its name. Finally, half the necessary $15 million...
...Boston Committee are proud of our success in this September primary. We hope to do as well in November and thus become as effective a political organization as is the Cambridge Civic Association across the River. We are trying to unite Democrats who are willing to support qualified Republics, Republicans who will vote for honest and upright Democrats, and Independents who will vote for good men of either party. We are presenting to the electorate a slate of candidates for the City Council which include nine qualified gentlemen representing every geographical area and every prominent religious and ethnic group...
...Civic-minded votes all over Boston must have sighed with relief yesterday. James Michael Curley's withdrawal seemed to justify their hopes that the Purple Shamrock and his machine had finally...
...honest an administration is at any point in time, the one-party system engendered by such a sellout is automatically dangerous. A system abhorred by democrats since the beginning of this nation, it produces corruption and irresponsibility in governments originally pure. For all of their sincere and intelligent civic mindedness, the prominent Republicans must bear a share of responsibility in this matter...
...faced an inefficient self-seeking government which operated under the Plan B system of a weak 15-man council and a strong mayor. During this time, popular indignation against the city hall gang swelled and when the mayor went to jail, voters demanded reform. The result was a Cambridge Civic Association which instituted extensive municipal changes, including a new system of administration for Massachusetts--Plan E, a weak 9-man council, mayor, and city manager. The Cambridge Civic Association refused to back any of the old Council members, except Crane. "I guess they felt that I had tried to fight...