Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists' worst humiliation came in West Harlem, where hulking Ben Davis, one of the convicted Communist leaders, was defending his seat on the city council. It was the only elective office in the U.S. held by a Communist, and the party poured its resources into the fight. Comrades sent sound trucks crisscrossing the district, harangued street-corner meetings nightly, and Candidate Davis shouted himself out of voice...
...were mistaken in your editorial of November 15 when you said the Dean used to appoint men to the Student Council. What actually happened under the old Constitution was that a majority of elected members appointed seven or eight other members. The Dean had no more power over the Council then than he does...
Many of us who were once in the Council were sorry to see it become an almost wholly elected group. We felt the Council was strengthened by being able to draft capable men to serve on it, most of whom would never have sought or achieved elective office. I think it fair and realistic to say that many of the talented men at Harvard haven't any great interest in student politics. To say they should have, and organize the Council as if they did, is to beg the issue; and that is what the present Constitution does...
...suggestions by the council were referred to its committee on ordinances. Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President of the University, withheld comment last night on the action, pending a closer study of the board's report...
...University lost the first round yesterday in its attempt to have part of its Observatory Hill land rezoned to permit apartment house construction. The Cambridge Planning Board recommended to the City Council that the University's petition for a zoning change he denied...