Word: civic
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Meanwhile, former assistant attorney general George Fingold, yesterday criticized by President of the Cambridge Civic Association James F. Mahan, was waiting to be asked to head the Massachusetts crime commission being discussed at the State House. Fingold stated that he believed that it was his duty to take over the job "if asked by the right people...
Charges by former assistant attorney general George Fingold that gambling rackets gross over $20,000,000 in the Boston area annually, do not apply to Cambridge, James F. Mahan, president of the Cambridge Civic Association, said yesterday. Mahan added that unless Fingold could "come over here and show me where the rackets exist, he might want to "mind his own business...
...Civic Association is a non-partime group of citizens whose support was influential in the election of a majority of the members of the present City Council...
...Adolph) Lewisohn, 66, Manhattan millionaire, financier, esthete; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Along with money, he inherited from his father Adolph the family tradition of cultural philanthropy. In a big-city way, Lewisohn followed the small-town ideal of the civic-spirited citizen; helped run Manhattan's famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts; pioneered in prison reform, was the only businessman ever to head the American Prison Association; tried to smooth labor-management relations (Human Leadership in Industry) ; worked at art collecting and art criticism (Painters and Personality...
Harridans in Cholers. Priestley sets out to tell how an average British town plays its part in the Festival of Britain, quite against its better civic judgment. The festival is foisted on Farbridge by a certain "Commodore" Horace Tribe, a spurious old dear with "a piratical nose and tiny bright eyes as busy and wicked as mice...