Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each Committee, composed of ten or more civic minded citizens, is in charge of about 200 households. It discharges matters concerning economic affairs, charity, public health, and loyalty reports. Worthy reported that a birth control program of "gigantic proportions" will probably be administered by the Street Committees...
...Cambridge Civic Association, represented in the School Committee by minority member Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of Education, has protested the appointments as "illegal" and collected over 11,000 signatures, which by law require a popular referendum on the subject...
These appointments, which earned for the majority of the Committee the enmity of many civic-minded citizens, were made at a special meeting on last December 11 called ostensibly to consider the budget. The Superintendent of Schools, John M. Tobin, was ill on that evening and could not attend the session, as he is legally required to do. Acting as chairman of the Committee, Mayor Edward J. Sullivan seized upon this opportunity to move for suspension of the rules, which require the examination of merit qualifications and the approval of the Superintendent of Schools. The opposition of Shaplin...
While the Committee did not forget this unpleasantness on the part of Cambridge parents, it was soon given a great deal more unpleasantness. Five civic organizations formed a "Citizens Committee Against Political School Appointments," which decided to circulate a petition for a city-wide referendum asking repeal of the appointments. At the same time, a group of taxpayers secured a temporary injunction against the Committee, which forbade it to notify the appointees or to appropriate any funds toward their salaries. The injunction is still in force and will be until a trial is held to determine whether the injunction should...
...Congregation Emanuel, comprising 32 families. Today there are 1,500 families in Emanuel, the dominant Jewish congregation in Dallas. Its leaders include Banker Fred Florence (Republic National Bank), Papermaker Lawrence Pollock (Pollock Paper Corp.), Merchant Prince Stanley Marcus (Neiman-Marcus), all of whom take Texas-size pride in being civic leaders and Dallas boosters. On Friday the temple was dedicated to the congregation itself, on Saturday to Judaism as a whole, on Sunday to the entire city of Dallas. "That's how their thinking goes," explained Emanuel's Rabbi Levi Olan. "They think of themselves as a natural...