Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while he continued tutoring, and one of his pupils later became a city councillor and the man who nominated Curry for City Manager. He was Edward A. Crane '35. "As far as he was concerned," Curry remembers, "it was merely a question of whether he was going to get 94 or 98 in his college entrance exam." In 1930 he received a Master of Education degree from Harvard and would have obtained his Ph.D. here also if it were not for the University's requirement that a student must spend half his time in residence. So instead he went...
This year the C. C. A. still retained that majority, but two of the C.C.A. endorsed councillors--Crane and Deguglielmo--were distinctly dissatisfied with Atkinson's policies. They bolted from the other three, and teamed up with three independents to form the crucial majority...
Immediately at the opening of the special session, Councillor Sullivan raised the reappointment issue and nominated his own candidate for manager; three other councillors presented other names; finally Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 placed in nomination schoolmaster Curry, the other four switched, and with startling abruptness the reign of John B. Atkinson had ended...
...unholy alliance brought immediate speculation: does it mean the end of good government for Cambridge? But merely because Crane and Deguglielmo broke from the C.C.A. did not mean they would not follow C.C.A. policy on other matters. Indeed they both felt Atkinson was not following C.C.A. policy himself, particularly on capital financing and school lighting. They saw him as an absentee manager who still had outside business interests despite the $20,000 yearly salary...
...unholy alliance brought immediate speculation: does it mean the end of good government for Cambridge? But merely because Crane and Deguglielmo broke from the C.C.A. did not mean they would not follow C.C.A. policy on other matters. Indeed they both felt Atkinson was not following C.C.A. policy himself, particularly on capital financing and school lighting. They saw him as an absentee manager who still had outside business interests despite the $20,000 yearly salary...