Word: mayors
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...Mayor Edward J. Sullivan and the four majority members of the School Committee received an unmistakable rap on the knuckles from the voters for having attempted to appoint 17 teachers and coaches, without apparent qualifications, over objections from School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education...
...YORK, Nov. 5--Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner won reelection tonight by a smashing margin over Republican Robert K. Christenberry, who ran with President Eisenhower's backing...
Eric Hansen, Executive Secretary of the CCA, declared that the CCA would win a majority in both the School Committee and the Council, and thereby be able to elect a mayor. He commented "Two years ago 35 votes would have elected us another Council member. We'll get more than that this time. We'll also win both Referenda, but we'll have a close fight." In recent elections, however, the CCA has not attained a majority in either body...
Hansen based some of his confidence on the surprise release of a flyer yesterday afternoon by Anthony Flynn and his Committee for the Preservation of Democracy. "This smear on the CCA shows how desperate Mayor Sullivan is," he said. The flyer claims that "The CCA is trying to destroy one of America's finest school systems...
...latter is undeniably in a bad way. Mayor Sullivan and other professional elements in the city have seen to it that the schools are overloaded with patronage appointments, the latest incidence of which occurred last December and is the hottest issue today. Crusading royally against the Mayor is the Cambridge Civic Association...