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...Student Union's double feature program of "Waiting for Lefty" and "The Fall of the City" comes off according to schedule tonight and tomorrow night it won't be because Councilman Michael A. Sullivan didn't try to stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIVAN THREATENS TO HALT 'COMMUNIST' PLAY OF H.S.U. | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

...Town and Gown struggle which has existed in Cambridge since the founding of Harvard is fast coming to a solution," announced City Councilman Edward A. Crane '35 in an interview yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Town Councilman Crane Claims Peace Nearing Between Cambridge, College | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

When shrewd, alert little George Backer bought the New York Post last June, he knew that it was losing around $500,000 a year, knew also that he would have to sink more money in it. A city councilman (representing the American Labor Party) and philanthropist, president of the Jewish Telegraph Agency, George Backer at 37 was rich from the proceeds of his Manhattan real-estate business. He thought he could spare the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Face Lifted | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

This sort of thing breathed o'er Manhattan for two years. A proposal to put a comfort station in the Central Park elephant house brought a politico to his feet to inquire why, in the name of Big Tim, did elephants need comfort stations? Councilman Sharkey regularly aired his heartfelt campaign to insure full measure in beer glasses. Once towering, revolutionary-stocky Fusionist A. Newbold Morris, Council president, started down from the chair, gavel in hand, after cocky little Democrat Charley Keegan from The Bronx. "Come down here," yelled Councilman Keegan, dancing joyously, "I'll cut you down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Broth Spoiled | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...City Councilman Michael A. Sullivan last night refused to say whether he would ask Police Chief Timothy Leahy to ban copies of the new issue of the Harvard Lampoon, which "exposes" him as the "brains" of American Communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIVAN SILENT ON LAMPOON CHARGE THAT HE'S COMMUNIST | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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