Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valid signatures in the next 15 days in order to revoke the committee's "illegal" appointment of the teachers in a closed session last week. Shaplin will be aided in this effort by the League of Women Voters, the P.T.A. Council, the Council of Neighborhood Associations, and the Cambridge Civic Association...
...only other dissenting vote in the closed meeting came from Mrs. Catherine Ogden. Both Shaplin and Mrs. Ogden are sponsored by the Cambridge Civic Association...
...conditions under which he works. The increasing popularity of long-term contracts is bound to make this sense of detachment even more pervasive. All this points up the need for improved channels of communication between union leaders and members, plus a broadening of union functions in education, recreation, civic affairs and other fields that will bind the rank-and-file closer to the organization in periods when there are no new contracts to get excited about...
Public insensitivity to the dangers of a nuclear war is a second obstacle to effective civil defense. First aid and other survival training courses are ignored. Civic organizations for civil defense die of unpopularity. Yet beneath apparent complacency lies the ferment called "atomic jitters." The disease is not incurable. Its remedy is a civil defense program designed to regain public interest and co-ordinate public activity at all levels...
...austerity a I'Anglaise." If France's motorists would just exercise restraint and "voluntarily" reduce their gasoline consumption by 30% for the next six weeks, Ramadier explained, France could get by without rationing or drastic bans on auto travel. As a help to the motorists' "civic spirit," the government announced that wholesalers were limiting filling stations to 70% of their normal supplies, and gas pumps would be shut down over weekends...