Word: counciling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this set of figures rests the issue of the current political campaign for nine places on the Cambridge City Council and six seats on the School Committee...
...election, November 8, for which there has been an unprecedentedly large registration of 57,017, the Cambridge Civic Association which originally pushed through the city manager type of city administration hopes to turn what remains from the old machine out and get a working majority on the nine-man Council. The CCA equates for igger and better reforms...
Opposition against the CCA is not crystallized. It is composed of "independents" running for Council or School Committee on their own records without other endorsement. The independents have held a five to four majority on the council during the period of reform in Cambridge...
Plan E provides that the city council and school committee be elected by proportional representation. Instead of choosing one candidate in a ward, the voter rates candidates in order of preference with first place votes, of course, counting highest in tabulation...
After the elected Council convenes, it elects a mayor from among its members, who serves mainly as titular head of the council, presiding over meetings, and representing the city at birthdays, weddings, funerals and affairs of state. As real director of the municipality, the Council appoints a city manager, who may be anyone the nine chooses to select...