Word: civics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abbreviation factor" is the final piece of circumstantial evidence pointing to the CCC's basically conservative stand. For 40 years, the Cambridge Civic Association, known to all as the CCA, has dominated Cambridge liberal politics. Each election year it runs a pro-rent control, anti-condo conversion slate. This year, once much of the CCA '79 literature was back from the printers, the CCC emerged, with similar slate tactics. To further complicate things, the CCC endorsed the three CCA candidate who later demanded to the unendorsed. Duehay demanded to be left off the CCC ticket because he feared "there would...
...more new votes the better, at least to some extent," Lin Sasman, executive director of the campaign for the Cambridge Civic Association's (CCA) reform slate, said last week...
...slate is also largely composed of council candidates who have taken stands against continued rent controls, with three notable exceptions. David Wylie, Francis Duehay, and challenger Alvin Thompson, all endorsed by the progressive Cambridge Civic Association, were also given...
When Catholic immigrants began arriving in large waves in the 19th century, anti-Catholicism developed into a profound civic dread. To Yankee eyes, Romanism swarmed in on the jammed immigrant ships, endangering America's agrarian dreams, clogging the cities with cheap labor. The old elites regarded the immigrants as the canaille that Jefferson had warned against; democracy could not survive such hordes of the ignorant and illiterate with their allegiances to a sinister wizard who dwelled in Rome surrounded by the skeletons of Borgias. (The Catholic immigrants, flocking together in a consciousness of their own differences, and with some...
...next Monday. He will celebrate Mass at each major stop -Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Des Moines, Chicago and Washington-and visit St. Patrick's Church in the tiny farm town of Cumming, Iowa. Along the way, John Paul will address seminarians and school students, visit with cardinals and civic dignitaries and attend a huge reception on the White House lawn that threatens to turn into a political rally: the President's invited guests include several thousand Catholic Carter supporters...