Word: groups
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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...
Jerome D. Rapaport '49 is the leader of these nightly squadrons and the executive secretary of the larger Students with Hynes for Better Government group which includes all the activities of the young people who back Hynes. Rapaport was a Dunster House man in his undergraduate days hero, but made his name at the law school by helping to organize the Law School Forum...
...Rapaport got together with William D. Weeks '49, a former Student Council president, who had a family interest in city and state politics, to form the Boston Students Civic Association. That name remained a part of the organization only until the group decided that Hynes was to be the man they would back for mayor. Then it became the Students with Hynes for Better Government a name which committed the group definitely for Hynes and left the Civic Association name for future...
...Flying Squadrons" are only one of the Students' many activities. Altogether, there have been over 500 workers since the group's initial meeting in August--all doing the varied jobs at which they were most skilled. In general, the work has been divided into three parts: organization, publicity, and canvassing...
...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...