Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge's eight-day count of ballots ended yesterday, as three CCA candidates were elected to the six-man School Committee. The control of the board, however, will rest in the hands of the mayor, an ex-officio member, due to the even division...
...York City mayoralty race, Robert Wagner won by the largest margin ever recorded by a candidate for mayor in city history. In New Jersey, Governor Meyner beat Malcolm Forbes by over 200,000 votes and similarly received more votes than any Democrat in New Jersey history. The Democrats, for the first time in twenty years, also captured the State Assembly, where they gained more seats than they have since 1912. The Democrats triumphed in spite of the fact that Eisenhower carried the state by 750,000 votes in last year's election and despite Forbes' importation of big-name Republican...
...final solution, other than surrender to the spiral, must be a sales tax or other system of state-wide income gathering which would shift some of the burden from cities to suburbs. Mayor Hynes is hoping for such legislation and with good cause. Boston has reached the point where pulling itself up by its own bootstraps financially is impossible. Only economizing, industrial growth, and state-wide taxation combined can enable the city to more than hold...
...difference between fourth and ninth positions, however, was only 300 votes, and any of the last six candidates has a chance for election. If the CCA gets two out of their trailing candidates elected, they will then have a majority on the School Committee of six members and the mayor...
Other CCA candidates re-elected were Edward A. Crane '35, Pearl K. Wise, and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29. Independents who won are Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, John D. Lynch, Alfred Vellucci, Thomas M. McNamara, and Charles A. Watson. Sullivan again ran far ahead of the other councilors...