Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judson T. Shaplin '41, associate dean of the School of Education, set the tone of the coming Cambridge election last night, when he shouted angrily to the audience at a Meet the Candidates rally, "How much do you value education in the public schoolsof Cambridge?"
Shaplin spoke in reference to the school committee's 17 secret appointments last December, the main issue of the election on November 5. He is endorsed for re-election to the committee by the Cambridge Civic Association, which came in for many attacks at the rally.
This view was loudly seconded by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan who threw the meeting into an uproar when he exhorted the audience to vote "yes" on both the referendums on election day. Someone in the audience screamed, "Vote no, while someone else yelled, "Vote yes." Still another shouted, "Throw that...
In 1955, when "the Eastern European seat" last fell vacant, the U.S. supported the Philippines against Yugoslavia, arguing that the 1945 gentlemen's agreement had been intended to last for only two years. As a compromise, it was finally agreed that Yugoslavia and the Philippines should each occupy the...
Three years ago Montreal's ex-Mayor Camillien Houde, who had just retired after running the city with all the uproar, fun and profit of a bingo game, was asked by a local matron what he thought of the new mayor, a prim, plain lawyer named Jean Drapeau. Replied...