Word: councillor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Councillor Al Vellucci yesterday told the CRIMSON that Thursday's offer to the University by a "leading Peterborough citizen" of 400 acres for a relocated College is "all a planned hoax by a group of Peterborough businessmen to take away our colleges and industries...
...When Councillor Al Vellucci proposed last week that Harvard be separated from Cambridge, his helpful suggestion was greeted by laughter. If Harvardians would consider this proposal for a Vatican City seriously, we would discover the limitless possibilities of a Free Harvard. With perhaps the highest per capita concentration of brain in any community in the world, a genuine cyclotron, and a private forest, Harvard could undoubtedly be the most powerful and influential political organ in the world. In view of Harvard's immense resources (the nation's second largest library, glass flowers, and Seymour Harris) it should not only separate...
...Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 asked "how can we wait until Monday if it is an emergency?" Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, meanwhile, declared himself ready to take over the police department if the Monday council meeting passes Vellucci's order...
Police and other municipal officials were quick to ridicule City Councillor Alfred A. Vellucci's proposal yesterday that a state of emergency be declared in Cambridge starting Monday because of Saturday's M.I.T. riot and the two Harvard Trust Company holdups this week...
...high police official called this charge "a stupid publicity stunt by a new councillor," and asserted that "the mayor is not a trained law official and is incompetent to handle the police department. Cambridge's crime rate is less than one-half that of Somerville or Medford. The citizens are getting excellent protection...