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Word: electioneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without clear-cut issues or personalities, diffusion results. This year, 31 City Council candidates and 21 School Committee candidates will fight on election day for the all-important first choice ballots.

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Current Campaign Lacks Clear Cut Issues | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

Such an election inevitably will have an effect on the operation of the Council. Each man has been elected largely on his own strength. His campaign promises have frequently been limited to protestations of faithful service to his supporters and the city at large, and, thus, if he has won...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Current Campaign Lacks Clear Cut Issues | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

To meet the practical difficulties raised by governmental reform, Plan E supporters in Cambridge banded together to form the Cambridge Civic Association. Functioning not only as an election-time support to good-government candidates but as a fulltime watchdog and policy development group, it assumed and has maintained a strong...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Current Campaign Lacks Clear Cut Issues | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

In an attempt to seek responsive support from as many quarters as possible, the CCA prepares at election time a very detailed statement of its platform--probably a more detailed statement than any candidate, CCA or "Independent," ever would find necessary. A revised zoning code would hardly arouse much enthusiasm...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Current Campaign Lacks Clear Cut Issues | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

Some win elections with a confusing complex of support. Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, for example, seems to gather support not only from her CCA endorsement but from some labor groups, women's groups, and "the Jewish vote." And Councillors Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 and Edward A. Crane '35, both Harvardtrained...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Current Campaign Lacks Clear Cut Issues | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

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