Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What stopped Curley from being a good governor was his attempt to gain power enough to form a state machine without setting up an efficient organization to do it. He tried to see everyone in the State and pass out jobs to everyone when the jobs just didn't exist; the Brahmins, looking out of their Beacon Hill bay windows were shocked by the long queues of unemployed emanating from the State House doors. That was the kind of thing that worked in City Hall, but couldn't possibly work on such a scale as the State of Massachusetts demanded...
This made local citizenry unhappy and in November 1940 they voted in a new form of government, Plan E with proportional representation. Under this system a non-partisan City Manager assumes the duties of mayor. The revised pattern of city administration went into use in 1941 and at the end of the fiscal year the tax rate tumbled $2.40 in the face of a rising cost of living. Cambridge taxpayers beamed...
Until 1938 any duly incorporated city could choose its own form of government as it pleased at the time of its incorporation. Over a period of years so many various types of charters were issued that Massachusetts courts were clogged with litigation involving misunderstandings between citizens of municipalities and the citizens themselves...
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, the Cambridge Civic Association was incorporated...
Just because over ten Crimson sports are officially "out of season" the teams aren't sleeping. In fact, all but one winter or spring squad is currently involved in some form of preliminary practice. Here's the roundup, team by team...