Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Independent John D. Lynch, a former mayor of Cambridge, said yesterday that he would not want the mayoralty "if it takes a political deal to get me in." He added that he supported Sullivan...
Councillor John D. Lynch called the 22,000 permanent residents who have moved out of Cambridge since 1945 the city's "lost battalion" and vowed that the council would take "drastic action" at its first meeting in January to make sure that the population does not dwindle further. "We've got to keep Cambridge from becoming a ghost town," he added...
...Lynch cited the urban renewal program--which will redevelop large tracts of city land for residential as well as industrial and business use--as the city's best chance to maintain its present population, and even recover some of the "lost battalion...
Councillors Hyman Pill and Edward A. Crane '35 agreed with Lynch that the Council should initiate a survey by an as-yet-undetermined body to study other methods of stemming the decrease. Councillor Edward J. Sullivan said that "it's important to keep Cambridge a residential community as well as a college campus...
...additional precaution, the city's name was stricken from the engine's side as it went on its sepulchered way. Lynch complained that the fire department "had pulled a fast one by quitting Cambridge early with only the driver and six girls along...