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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...similar situation mesmerized voters during the race for nine seats on Cambridge's City Council. Unable to unseat the proponents of municipal government by an appointed city manager on the basis of their record, a few frustrated politicians assailed the C.C.A. candidates as upper class political dictators. The fact that managerial government cut cut the city debt by $10,000,000 in six years became a minor issue in the minds of the electorate. When Harvard voters were thought to favor Plan E. two politicians fought their campaign on a Town and Gown angle. With voters simmering over the possibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mark of Greatness | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Finally, Andrew could take it no longer. The mited man filed suit for $40,000 in Wayne County Common Pleas Court against the Bishop and his elders and asked the court also to make the elders call off the "shun." Last week in Wooster, a jury of nine men and three women, none of them Amish, listened sympathetically as the thin-faced, round-bearded Yoder retailed his woes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: The Mited Man | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...affairs got down to business in a hurry. Arriving in Washington last week from Honduras, where he had just shucked his job as the U.S.'s second youngest Ambassador,* 44-year-old Paul Daniels showed up at his green-carpeted office the first morning at a quarter to nine. As Director of the Office of American Republics Affairs (ARA), he knew he had his work cut out for him. Besides riding herd on 20 U.S. Ambassadors south of the border, he will be the top-level State Department contact for Latin American Ambassadors assigned to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Calling the Plays | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...polls distributed, 302 have been returned thus far, the Council parking committee disclosed. Seventy-nine men favored the unprotected, free lot, while fifty-three said they would use the unguarded lot, but would prefer that it be fenced in. Rental would then he $5 per month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Autoists Pick Soldiers Field Space in Poll | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...Nine winter track meets, including the IC4A championships at New York and the Nonagonals at Boston Garden, have been scheduled by the Athletic Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IC4A, Relays Top Board Track Slate | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

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