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...elections to decide the future City Council and School Board have been campaigned on the basis of individual preference rather than party affiliation. With each candidate, excepting those men endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, conducting his own campaign, there has been no concerted effort to overcome voter inertia or crystallize important issues for the benefit of the electorate. The race for ballots seems to be diffused towards class bigotry and vicious recrimination while the vital questions remain securely muzzled...
...battle to fill six seats on the seven man School Board shows the same irrelevant arguments that tend to confound the real issues. Wracked by incompetence, politics, and inertia in its administration, the Cambridge school system is barely adequate, often verging on poor. The administration cannot be changed without a five-to-two vote on a school board that is well stacked against progress. Opponents of any change berate those candidates endorsed by the C.C.A. with charges of personal dislike and the same bad joke of political domination while the real educational issues remain shackled...
...overall picture of the campaign for control of Cambridge schools and its city government seems couched in terms of progress versus inertia and politics. City administration by an appointed manager becomes vastly unpopular with politicians when lucrative sub-contracts are no longer available. Today Cambridge shovels its own snow instead of contracting for a fleet of $5.00-an-hour trucks and 400 men at a net cost of more than $75,000 per snow storm. Those men eager to keep Cambridge from becoming a politician's plum are endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association. The C.C.A. has also endorsed Richard...
...phrase 'freedom of the press' is to have any meaning," he declared, "the press must combat restrictive influences outside the industry and its own inertia and acquiescence to the status...
...spite of such inertia and hostility, the in-escapable logic of events may force Congress, however reluctantly, to grant at least a part of the President's requests for European aid. But the outlook for favorable action on Mr. Truman's proposal for measures to stop inflation at home is dark indeed. Although the President actually gave "inflation curbs" top listing on his agenda, several Congressmen have declared their intent to introduce tax reduction measures as soon as Congress assembles. It is generally conceded that any overall tax reduction would release more money to be spent in an already inflated...