Word: councillor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight hundred M.I.T. students were left in the lurch Tuesday night when Cambridge police forced cancellation of a scheduled showing of "Ecstasy." The banning was the first repercussion of Councillor Edward A. Sullivan's order, approved unanimously by the city council last Monday, that the License Bureau show more care in issuing movie permits...
...Films' showing of "Ecstasy" four times last week provoked Sullivan's order. The councillor declared the movie "immoral" after viewing it last Friday and introduced the order on Monday, two days after M.I.T. had been granted the permit...
...bill, presented by Councillor John J. Foley, invites the United States Navy to "moor the historic ship in the Charles River, should salvage operations prove successful." Councillor John D. Lynch confided that the ship would be "anchored off the Weld Boat House as a city shrine...
...City councillors were a little leary of attending their annual dinner with University officials in Eliot House last night. At a meeting yesterday afternoon, councillor Edward Sullivan introduced an order that, "in view of the recent fire at Claverly Hall, all the fire exits in Eliot be checked before the council arrives...
Even though the supply of men and equipment quickly increased after V-J Day, Boston mayors continued the negotiations system. In 1945 and 1946 there was no bidding at all. In 1947, twelve out of fourteen contracts by-passed low bidders. When a city councillor threatened to make a scandal out of this, Mayor Curley promised to start a citywide incinerator system. But instead, the Public Works Commissioner allowed an 18 percent increase in costs...