Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It is barely possible that some Harvard students do not realize that a municipal election campaign is in full swing. The men and women who are running, however, are every day more aware that they are in a fight.
Of these classifications the ins are, in most instances, fairly sure of re-election; the reformers will elect some of their slate; and the perennials and the newcomers are generally doomed to oblivion, this year at least.
The ins in the 1957 battle are headed by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, who proclaims himself as the voters' "Around-the-Clock-Servant," humane, sincere, trustworthy, faithful, aggressive, honest, and capable. Sullivan predicted that he will "top the ticket," and that his group of so-called "independents" will keep control...
In reality, though, few of the unknowns stand much of a chance in the November 5 election. The battle this fall is strangely enough, a more or less ideological one, and the battle lines were drawn almost a year ago. This factor effectively places the majority of the candidates on...
The CCA, born in June, 1945, during the fight for Plan E government in Cambridge, feels that PR is very nearly a matter of life and death. Under PR, the normally outvoted wards around Harvard Square have a chance to elect representatives of their own. If PR were repealed and...