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Mayor Edward J. Sullivan and Councilor Joseph A. De Guglielmo '29, who are running as delegates to the Democratic National Convention, abstained from voting...
...Revolt. One day in July 1953, a local blacksmith and municipal councilor named Georges Fregeac got a tax notice: contrôle (inspection of his books) next day. Twenty-six other shopkeepers and artisans of Saint-Céré got the same notice. Blacksmith Fregeac was behind in his taxes, of course, and he could not pay. Hurriedly, he summoned his fellow councilors to an emergency meeting in a café. Early next morning, two inspectors faced a hostile crowd of some 300 shopkeepers in slippers and aprons. "Get out of here," yelled the mob. The inspectors left. Pierre...
...Republican majority in the legislature will probably pass the referendum, since the Republicans "can only gain" from a change, according to Edward Martin, Cambridge reporter of the Boston Record and an unsuccessful Council candidate last fall. The last Republican Councilor, Marcus Morton was defeated in the November elections...
...Movement: In July 1953, some 30 Saint-Ceré merchants, notified that the tax inspector was about to examine their books, appealed to Councilor Poujade, who formed a committee that threw out the tax inspectors, later organized resistance against the police. ("I cheat on my taxes. I always have. I couldn't get by otherwise.") Poujade formed the Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, which quickly spread throughout France. In March last year, heading a national movement of 800,000 supporters, he called a taxpayers' strike, took his fight for fiscal reform to the National Assembly...
...Cambridge, meanwhile, the Civic Association held its final rally last night before the elections. The main issue of the local campaign, which Hyman Pill city councilor for the last 22 years, calls the "most personal and the most intense" he ever saw, is the question of endorsement by the C.C.A...