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Almost the only positive action to come out of the situation was Boston Mayor John F. Collins' appointment of a group to study welfare conditions in Boston...
...City Hall should establish regular communication with the Roxbury community. This could be done through regular meetings with Negro representatives who are in close contact with, and have the confidence of, all segments of Roxbury society. Until now, the mayor's office has been far too inaccessible to such representatives, but meetings were held during the recent violence and should be continued. Collins might also establish a "little city hall" in Roxbury along the lines proposed by Mayor John V. Lindsay in New York City...
...There was a claminess to the Harvard tradition of the early '40s, capable of gluing ardent faith in the New Deal and proper Republicanism together. When the Class of '42 were freshman, a delegation of "seven Harvard liberals and two Radcliffe New Dealers" went to call on flamboyant Boston Mayor James M. Curley. They were going to urge him to adopt a New Deal platform in the interest of "the Middle Class voting block," the CRIMSON said, "which Curley has reached only slightly, but which might be a valuable asset to him in the coming campaign for governor...
Plungers & Brooms. Mayor John Lindsay, who pinned that name on New York City, tried to restore the jollity by offering the hard-nosed landlords a 15% rent increase. As the garbage mounted higher to draw flies and rats, Lindsay declared a health emergency and ordered sanitation crews to launch a cleanup. At the same time, an irate mob of some 600 landlords stormed down to city hall carrying toilet plungers, brooms, mops and angry signs, such as one that read: "Dictator Lindsay makes New York City a concentration camp...
...there is no competition in the morning or evening, the papers could simply settle down and enjoy their profits. Instead the Globe and the P-D choose to fight it out. And the citizens of St. Louis fight right along with them. "Some swear by the Globe," says former Mayor Raymond Tucker, now professor of urban affairs at Washington University, "and some swear by the Post-Dispatch." And some swear at them. "Unfair, reactionary, hip-shooting" are epithets commonly hurled at the Globe. "Sluggish, effete, unpatriotic" are some of the names the Post-Dispatch is called. "The kindest word...