Word: councillor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This uniform commitment to progress makes things difficult for the independent Councillors. They are not devoid of ideas or desirable civic improvements, particularly items of largely neighborhood importance which the CCA could overlook. But if CCA Councillors do not offer their support, the independents must form temporary alliances, often by trading votes with their fellows. There are always more or less permanent alliances within this group, but these are sometimes unreliable. Not infrequently the independent Councillor must choose between the CCA's plan for progress, or no plan...
Mayor: The ceremonial head of the city, he is elected from the City Council by a vote of its members, and presides at its meetings. Except as parliamentarian, however, he possesses no position of leadership, as his vote counts no more than that of any other Councillor, and since he has only a Councillor's responsibility for initiating action. By 18 years' precedent, Cambridge mayors serve only one two-year term...
...motion, introduced by Councillor John D. Lynch, was apparently aimed as a reaction to a Cambridge Ministers' Association resolution criticizing the City Council for its recent motion that condemned Russian Premier Khrushchev's American tour...
After much discussion, the group passed two motions. One supporting the candidacy of William S. Barnes, assistant Dean of the Law School, for membership on the Cambridge School Committee; and the other for reelection of Cambridge City Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo...
...Club's Executive Committee is expected to push for a motion that the HYDC start campaigning for the election of William S. Barnes, assistant Dean of the Law School, to the Cambridge School Committee, and for the re-election of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, Cambridge City Councillor...