Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Cambridge City Councillors-elect have assured Edward A. Crane '35 of election as mayor by pledging him their support in the January mayoralty contest, it was revealed yesterday. Cambridge's mayor is chosen by the City Council from among; its nine members...
...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...
...unofficially reported that Crane received the mayoralty for two reasons: 1) He had polled the most votes, 4,405, in the Council election. 2) He gave up his strong bid for the mayoralty in 1947 to break a deadlock in the Council that had lasted for some 1250 ballots and two and a half months...
Donald W. Dowd '51, president of the Liberal Union, stated last night that the Liberal Union will definitely call for Student Council action on the pledge when the Council meets on Monday. However, if the Council decides not to take action, "the Liberal Union stands ready to lead a movement which would requrest a formal objection to the Navy department by the University," Dowd announced...
...problem we are concerned with," Dowd stated, "is the degree of responsibility the University has to the students, not just the moral principles involved in a pledge. Because the pledge may involve the entire student body, it is an 'apolitical' problem, and therefore should be handled by the Council, rather than the Union, YP, or any other college group...