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Questioning the validity of the signatures on the petition for referendum, signed by 11,300 Cambridge citizens, many of which he claimed were written by the same hand, McNamara introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of the manner in which the signatures were collected. The resolution was passed...
Plan E was described as "a plot on the part of those people connected with the Harvard School of Business Administration to grab the government of this city," by Thomas F. McNamara, President of the Cambridge City Council, at a Council meeting Tuesday night...
...like of which has seldom been heard since the day of Lincoln Steffens and the muckrakers. On Friday the petition of the Plan E Committee, which under the chairmanship of Dean Landis has obtained over 11,000 signatures, was blocked by the Council on trivial technical ground. Mr. McNamara, president of the body, declared that Cambridge "was not going to be turned into a laboratory of guinea pigs for a lot of theorists" and sat down on his political haunches. Even when the ballot law commission certified the petition of Saturday, Mr. McNamara refused to call a special meeting because...
Author Adamic considers himself afloat in a socio-economic chaos, he also claims to have a navigation chart that explains it. How he discovered this chart is a long story, requiring 44 pages to tell. The story, told in Dynamite and here expanded, is that of the McNamara case and the Syndicalist dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in 1910. For Adamic, who heard the story from an old Socialist in 1928, violence "à la McNamara" is the chart that explains the conflict between Capital & Labor, between Right & Left, together with all other U. S. Sargassoan social incongruities...
...handicap. He is most interesting when he writes about experiences where he got involved. He writes better, for example, about a girl hitchhiker he picked up than about John L. Lewis; better about Manhattan radical-intellectuals as personalities than about their role as intellectual counter-parts of the McNamara dynamiters; better about Slovenian peasants than about C. I. O. The letters written to him by a Hollywood friend are interesting for their violence rather than for the sociological value he attributes to them...