Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the municipal election, November 8, for which there has been an unprecedentedly large registration of 57,017, the Cambridge Civic Association which originally pushed through the city manager type of city administration hopes to turn what remains from the old machine out and get a working majority on the...
A group of Cambridge residents, aiming for elimination of graft and better administration through change of government formed a Plan E committee. To get a referendum on the change, they secured the required 10,000 signatures on a petition before election in 1939.
The Committee was unsuccessful, however, in the first election; not until 1940, on a second try, was Plan E voted as the new charter. A 7,500 majority, carrying all but three of the city's 11 wards, made Cambridge the first city in Massachusetts to use the new plan...
Because of the large number of candidates that filed each year under the new Plan--over 100 in 1941, for example--a number of residents decided to form a good government group, which would endorse certain candidates for each election. Corresponding closely in makeup to the old Plan E Committee...
A lapse to government by political machine is what the CCA fears would result if they lost a seat on the Council at the coming election. "Their (anti-CCA candidates) objectives is clearly," a CCA campaign bulletin said,"1) to destroy P.R. in 1950; 2) to jam (the 1951 municipal...