Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet since 1948, 'the Parker House is busy again. Banquets and teas and youth rallies fill the ballrooms, red-faced men in chalk stripe suits, with homburgs and cigars fill the lobby, smoke fills a dozen rooms from the eighth floor up. Across the street, a sound truck blaring MacNamara...
The beating odds favor the re-election of James Michael Curley as mayor. Running for his seventh time, Curley has had four previous terms as mayor as well as one session of the Massachusetts governorship and two terms as Congressman in Washington. His past term as mayor was unique in...
The other serious contender for the mayor's office is Governor's Councilor Patrick J. (Sonny) McDonough. With a history of ward leadership and prominence in the State Democratic party, McDonough conducts a vigorous, personal campaign, often spending whole days shaking hands with everyone he meets on the street; his...
In the coming election, nine councilmen and six School Committee members must be selected from a total of 56 candidates--40 for Council and 16 for the School Committee. Of those running the Cambridge Civic Association, a non-partisan group of voters, has endorsed 15. All others are campaigning as...
Since all the CCA endorsed candidates this year are worthy of office, and their program is a good one, Cambridge would benefit by the election of a majority of them to Council and School Committee.