Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of the petition's original sponsors, Dennis DeCoste, said after the meeting that Vote on Vietnam had never thought the Council would put the petition on the ballot. "We just wanted to put pressure on the Council, to expose their position on this issue," he said.
After more than an hour of frequently bitter debate with the anti-war group, the Council voted unanimously to refer the petition to the Committee on Public Safety and Service. The referral in effect killed any possibility of Council action, since the committee's chairman, Councillor William G. Maher, is...
Some 75 members of Cambridge Vote on Vietnam packed the Council chambers to demand that the City put a petition opposing the Vietnam war onto the November 7 ballot. Two weeks ago, Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden disqualified two such petitions on grounds that the issue was irrelevant to...
Six members of Vote on Vietnam spoke before the Council last night, arguing that "it is unfair to the people of Cambridge that the City is maneuvering to keep this off the ballot." At one point, Dennis DeCoste reminded the Council that "over 8000 people signed the petition--twice the...
When Eckstein received the petition, he scheduled a Thursday luncheon meeting at Lowell House with those who were pushing the idea. Three hours later he had cleared the arrangements with the Economics department and told Kaufman the section was set.