Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 charged that a group of council members--headed by Councillor William H. Walsh--had met in private and decided to use the controversy surrounding the Commonwealth Day School's departure from Cambridge for political ends in council elections this November...
...this week, Duehay said Walsh was using the Commonwealth Day issue for political ends--to cast aspersion on him and his supporters...
...five Independents on the council denied having taken part in any meeting to discuss the politicization of the Commonwealth Day issue...
Graham said she did not want her name to appear on the order because she was concerned that the racial questions underlying the Commonwealth Day matter had been buried in local politics...
Graham said the Commonwealth Day debate opened up a variety of questions about racism, classism and sexism in the city, adding that the council should provide a more practical forum than city elections to discuss these issues...