Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee, Wisconsin: December 30, A. William Asmuth, Jr. '38, 735 North Water Street; Baltimore: Paul P. Swett, Jr. '32, Baltimore Life Insurance Company, Charles Street; Mcmphis, Tennessee: Merrill Garcelon '25, 639 Sterick Building; Minnesota: December 30, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, Route 1, Wayzata; Omaha: December 22, Roderic B. Crane, University of Nebraska; New Canaan, Connecticut: David C. Marvin, 37 Elm Street...
...votes were pledged at a secret caucus of the Cambridge Civic Association candidates--Crane was elected on the CCA ticket--who were successful in the recent Council election...
Since Cambridge's mayor automatically acts as chairman of all city committees, Crane's victory is a considerable success for the CCA. His position as mayor will break a deadlock on the Cambridge School Committee, whose six-man membership had been split evenly between CCA endorsed candidates and independents...
...unofficially reported that Crane received the mayoralty for two reasons: 1) He had polled the most votes, 4,405, in the Council election. 2) He gave up his strong bid for the mayoralty in 1947 to break a deadlock in the Council that had lasted for some 1250 ballots and two and a half months...
Amory, commenting on the CCA's good fortune in choosing Crane, said he and his colleagues had definite plans for Cambridge's schools...