Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second report just made to the Chamber supports a bill to amend the charter of Boston. The committee recommends that the city elections take place between December 14 and 20, and that the number of signatures required for nominations for mayor be reduced from 5000 to 2000 for members of the City Council. The committee is at present considering a contract for lighting all the streets in Boston for a period of ten years...
...result of the primaries of February 17th, the following are candidates for Mayor: Arthur F. Blanchard, Progressive; Timothy W. Good, Democrat; Wendell D. Rockwood, Citizen's Municipal. An Assessor, a School Committee, eleven Aldermen and several members of the Common Council will also be elected...
Last year Mayor Barry, indorsed by the Citizens' Municipal party, defeated Blanchard by over 5,000 votes. Although last year's election saw a decrease of 800 votes in the no-license majority, and a gain of 200 votes for license it is generally predicted that the no-license policy will win again this year...
...annual primary for the nomination of city officials is being held in Cambridge today. The polls will be open from 12 o'clock at noon to 9 o'clock in the evening, and the chief contest will be for the Democratic nomination for mayor. For this nomination there are four candidates: Messrs. Good, Brennan, Montgomery, and O'Connor. The mayoralty nominations of the Citizens' Municipal party and the Progressive party will also be made at today's primary, but the contest among candidates of these two parties has evoked lttle public interest...
...Fisher will give Economics 16, the Theories of Contemporary Socialism. He is very well known in professional circles, being a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and of the American Historical Association. He has also taken part in politics, municipal and state. He was mayor of Middle-town, Conn., for one term. Before going to Wesleyan he was instructor and professor at Brown...