Word: elected
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conversion, is expected to come up for a vote in the council today. The fact that the liberals have been behind reforms such as rent control--working behind the scenes in the interests of the working people of Cambridge--is the reason they were so eager this January to elect one of their own as mayor. Graham says, "We're tired of being the power brokers. Nobody considers us, and we thought it was time to see one of us up there...
Indeed, Carter seemed to be searching for a definable position in the broad ideological middle, sending overtures to both right and left as he philosophized about the limitations of Government and called for "a new spirit, a partnership between those of us who lead and those who elect...
...bore the L.B.J. brand with hardly more complaint than the cattle on the ranch. In his autobiography, The Education of a Public Man, Humphrey described how Johnson invited him to the ranch and in the course of the visit ordered him to shoot a deer. The Vice President-elect, who abhorred hunting, did as he was told with obvious distaste. So Johnson told him to bag another deer. Once again, Humphrey obeyed his Commander in Chief. It was to be that kind of relationship for the duration of the Johnson Administration...
...Cambridge City Council will attempt for the third time to elect a Mayor for the City of Cambridge tonight, although no councilor is expected to receive the necessary five votes to assume the office...
...undemocratic nature of the CRR soon compelled a student boycott--the freshman class, the Houses and the GSAS all refused to elect representatives to the body, citing their unwillingness to participate in what one student group called the "medieval atmosphere and procedures of the hearings conducted by the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities." Students criticized the faculty majority, the secrecy of the hearings, and the whole dirty chore of censuring and punishing political activity. A Crimson editorial from the winter of 1970 observed, "In a polarized community such as this one, a committee such as the CRR can only dole...