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Supervising the soft, intellectual approach at PAIIC was John Frenning '44. According to Frenning, PAIIC was not a group of businessmen but merely a "non-partisan citizens' organization." It raised about $100,000, most of which was spent by election day. It does not now and never has had any connection with CFLT...
Populism aimed to free the small farmer from debt, and it inspired William Jennings Bryan's free-silver policy, which was designed to put more money into circulation. From Populist roots grew the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota, the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota and the Progressive Party headed by Wisconsin's Senator Robert La Follette. The movement also developed its ugly side, later serving as a power base for such back-country bigots and racist leaders as Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo, Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge and, eventually, Tom Watson. Today, however, Southern Populism is rural liberalism...
...adopt the AFL-ClO-Humphrey-Hawkins approach. This inevitably would pump so much money into the economy as to raise demand to the point at which employers sign on almost anybody who shows up, with the Government hiring the residue, many in make-work jobs. A non-partisan study last May by the Library of Congress indicated that an attempt to get the overall jobless rate down to 3% within 18 months would push inflation back up to "a 12% to 13% annual rate" initially, and even more later on. One reason: long before employers hired the last ghetto black...
...their nine Independent opponents. The formation of the Convention '75 slate, then, killed two birds with one stone--in addition to allowing the seven endorsed candidates to enjoy the economy and mutual support afforded by pooled resources, it also eliminated once and for all the charade of a "non-partisan" campaign. Political lines were quickly and clearly drawn, and the interparty friction that is apparently a necessary element in any election has materialized...
Although technically city politics are non-partisan, Cambridge is overwhelmingly Democratic and the spectrum usually runs from middle to left. In the middle are the so-called Independents who now control a five-man majority on the council with varying degrees of success. After 30 unsuccessful ballots for mayor in January 1974, when the present council took office, two Independents, Walter J. Sullivan and Leonard J. Russell, joined forces with the liberal faction of the council to elect themselves mayor and vice-mayor, in exchange for their votes to replace then-City Manager John Corcoran with James L. Sullivan. Since...