Word: civics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as a boy in Mexico, José had been an unworldly sort. But his golden voice and romantic profile soon had him performing at the Chicago Civic Opera, most notably as Nicias in Thais. He went into the movies, made a succession of highly successful musical films in Hollywood, Mexico City and Buenos Aires...
...newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...
Founded in 1910, the association is a sectional civic organization "intended to create fair trade among Square merchants and to stimulate non-political civic projects." Similar groups exist in Central Square and elsewhere in Cambridge...
...Great Tradition of Leverett House went out the window yesterday afternoon but "an even greater tradition has taken its place" according to the philanthropists of the Leverett House Civic improvement Society...
...votes were pledged at a secret caucus of the Cambridge Civic Association candidates--Crane was elected on the CCA ticket--who were successful in the recent Council election...