Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That's the keynote of the Hynes campaign. The present city clerk of Boston, who is running for office for the first time in his life, knows that a well-informed student group will be an invaluable political asset now in the days preceding November 8, as well as later in Boston's political future. In the organization of youth groups, the 21-28 age group, Hynes leads all the other candidates who are running for mayor...
Early in the campaign, the Students set up their organization. First they contacted the leaders in all the Boston schools; then they sent letters inviting as many Boston students as could be accommodated to come to a mass meeting at the Parker House. Though that was one of these hot nights last summer, more than three hundred students showed up. Soon afterwards, the group met formally and elected Daniel J. Ahern of Boston College as president with Rapaport as his executive secretary. The ward leaders were appointed and the campaign work began...
...program. About a dozen or so of the group have spent most of their time researching into alleged malpractices of the past administration and into vital statistics on previous elections. Once this group collected its figures, another division of the student group printed them in a newspaper. In their first issue, for instance, was a "Waste Table" showing three or four items on the city books during the past administration which they claimed were a gross and extravagant loss to the city. In another column in the newspaper, the research group pointed out the facts and figures of Maurice...
...Young Citizen's Times" is, of course, a partisan paper, printing the bulk of the material that Hynes is using as a weapon in his fight. Many of the columns in the first issue published figures charging maladministration, others discussed Hynes' life, still others were collections of pro-Hynes quips that have come up during the campaign's progress. One feature was a book review of "The Purple Shamrock" by Joseph F. Dinneen; another was a series of editorials trying to appeal to the younger voters...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor shot its first Harvard scenes for "Mystery Street" yesterday, but the process clogged up the Yard for over four hours and still isn't complete...