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Upon motion of Councilor-at-Large John J. Toomey, the Council passed a resolution asking the College to donate a strip of land on the northwest corner of the Yard which would be used in broadening the junction of Kirkland and Peabody Streets. The strip lies between Kirkland Street and Phillips Brooks House, and Peabody Street and Mower Hall...
Explaining his motion to the Council, Councilor Toomey said, "Due to the fact that the Fellows of Harvard University have decided to enter into a much better relationship with the city, I can foresee their willingness to sit down with city officials and deed this land...
With torch light parades and speeches, City Councilor Michael A. Sullivan celebrated his victory over that "hatchet man" William H. Flanagan. Mike was re-elected Ward 6 councilor by a safe plurality, sweeping Flanagan in his own home precincts...
Pointing to the lack of cooperation among the Cambridge welfare boards, the self-styled "next city councilor from Ward?" demanded reforms "to bring order out of the chaos in the civil service...
...Japan Society, a frequent sounding board for the two countries' relationships. Five years ago Ambassador Grew returned to Tokyo after a furlough. The America-Japan Society's welcoming speech was made by suave, old Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, one of Japan's most subtle diplomats, then Privy Councilor. Viscount Ishii amazed everyone by saying that a war between Japan and the U. S. was remote unless "the U. S. ever attempted to dominate the Asiatic continent and prevented Japan from her pacific and natural expansion in this part of the world." Ambassador Grew rose, said he was terribly...