Word: electioneered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First official results of the Cambridge School Committee election indicate that Robert Amory Jr. '36, professor of Law, is assured of a seat on the six man Committee. His candidacy was backed by the Cambridge Civic Association.
Amory led the 16 man field running for the school board with the 4756 votes he polled on the initial count but he is still 793 votes shy of the quota for election.
Others apparently certain of election to the Committee are: James J. Cassidy, 4334, an "Independent"; Pearl K. Wise, 4051, CCA; and Thomas H. D. Mahoney, 3515, CCA.
The seven fields of Council activity, which will be investigated by the subcommittees, are: the Council and the University; the Council in freshman affairs; election and membership of the Council; Houses and the Council; relations with semi-public organizations (such as the Salzburg Seminar, National Student Association, Phillips Brooks House...
Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120...