Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skid Row is marked for extinction to make space for shining (and more taxworthy) office buildings or glassy, classy apartment houses. Kansas City's Skid Row has fallen to an expressway. City planners in Denver have their eye on Larimer Street, and Los Angeles is midway in a civic cleanup on most of East Fifth Street's Skid...
...Harvard are well known; Mayor Sullivan, who used to give anti-Harvard speeches outside Harvard dormitories; and James Fitzgerald, who made several slurs on Harvard during school committee meetings last year. In the minds of these men, the outcry against the appointments last year was organized by the Cambridge Civic Association, a good-government seeking organization, as a political maneuver to malign the motives of the "independent" school committeemen...
...truth, did organize the anti-appointments campaign--though not for political motives. It saw in the action of the majority members of the school committee a serious threat to the already weak Cambridge school system, and spurred on the other civic groups that were seeking to stop the appointments. The CCA itself was moved to act by the two school committeemen whom it had endorsed, Mrs. Catherine Ogden and Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the School of Education. These two fought against the majority of the committee in a valiant attempt to repeal the appointments...
...year, even though the association has established a headquarters in Central Square and are attempting to campaign vigorously in these areas, the candidates whom they have chosen to endorse from these sections are not of the high caliber of CCA-endorsed Councilor DeGuglielmo, Shaplin, and Mrs. Ogden. Many lack civic and legal experience; one city councilor candidate is venturing into city affairs for the first time this fall...
Uptown Gossip. Amidst its planned madness, WILY also has exhibited civic spirit-it helped to get children placed in foster homes, campaigned for improvement in the Negro community. From its pigeon perch on top of a fruit market, WILY collected neighborhood news by offering listeners $5 for tips on human-interest stories or uptown gossip. "Radio isn't like it used to be,'' says balding, Baltimore-born Manager Tannen, who once worked as a chorus boy in Mae West's Catherine Was Great. "It has become like wallpaper, a companion...