Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special Civic Education Department opened 160 centers, taught rudimentary courses in "What are your rights?" and "What are your duties?" in 218 settlements; new vocational schools graduated 61,000 immigrants, including Yemenite welders who man the new $5,000,000 pipe factory at Yuval Gad, carefully tucking their side curls behind their ears before putting on their helmets. In the new immigration towns such as Acre and Jaffa, authorities mix the newcomers to speed integration. One apartment house may hold families from as many countries as there are apartments. Some Europeans complain of being put next door to "blacks...
...mayor taken over the past two weeks, independent councillor Edward J. Sullivan is in the lead with four votes, one shy of the necessary five. The fifth independent, Thomas M. McNamara, has consistently withheld his vote from Sullivan in hopes that he himself may become mayor. The four Civic Association councillors have abstained in the voting thus...
Round-robin voting by the independents and abstentions by the Civic Association-endorsed members prevented the election of Cambridge's new mayor at the City Council's meeting last night and ended the session in a deadlock in less that one-half hour. After five futile ballots, the council voted to adjourn until next Monday...
Four independents supported Sullivan at last week's meeting, but the fifth, Thoman M. McNamara, voted for himself to cost the council's top vote-getter the mayoralty. The four Cambridge Civic Association councillors voted "present" last week and plan to do so again today...
Councillor John J. McNamara bolted the City Council independents' ranks this week to keep fellow-councilman Edward J. Sullivan from becoming Cambridge's new mayor. The Cambridge Civic Association, meanwhile, abstained from voting and let the independent majority bring the newly-elected council's first meeting to an impasse...