Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for many of the improvements the Council has made in the past ten years has been the Cambridge Civic Association. This non-partisan voters' organizations, headed by Donald Spencer '26, has pressured the legislators year after year to put through school improvements and appoint better men to the government. This good government has proved an asset to the University and its students...
There is still a good deal of controversy over the University's tax exemption, which is written into the State Constitution. One influential politician, a member of the Cambridge Civic Association, explained: "I still have a feeling that some family in East Cambridge is helping pay the way of some rich young man from California through College...
When a group of highstrung American Legionnaires in Dallas heard that Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel was scheduled to be soloist in the cantata Alexander Nevsky, a eulogy to a 13th Century Russian patriot, they stirred up civic feeling against the lyrics. Everybody was happy after the word "Russians" was changed to "people," "Russian soil" to "fertile soil," "Russian valor" to "native valor...
George R. Ruditz 3L, replying for the club, said that the group had met before the election with one of the two winning candiates it supported, Francis, J. Good, and other local citizens including attorney Lawrence F. Feloney. Feloney has been active in the Cambridge Civic Association, a group which supports Plan...
Under present plans, the new research center would investigate legal problems for legislatures, civic organizations, and private and public agencies. Officials estimate the yearly cost of the center...