Word: pr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plea favoring PR, Councilor Joseph DeGuglielmo '29 claimed that the abolition group, headed by former Democratic State Chairman Charles H. McGlue, is not making "an honest attempt," but is trying to create a "smokescreen to hide the clear-cut School Committee issue...
McGlue, a long-time foe of PR, is trying, according to DeGuglielmo, to interfere with Cambridge home rule and to change democracy to communism. The councilor said that McGlue had even tried to "halt the election" through petitions to the courts...
DeGuglielmo said he has been studying this system of voting since the mayor, who made the anti-PR motion, "was get- ting out of swaddling clothes...
Although at first an opponent of PR, DeGuglielmo said he has since become convinced that all groups in the city have received good representation in the Council since this system has been used here. "We've had intellectual minorities represented in this Council who could not get elected under the plurality form of voting," he concluded...
...born in June, 1945, during the fight for Plan E government in Cambridge, feels that PR is very nearly a matter of life and death. Under PR, the normally outvoted wards around Harvard Square have a chance to elect representatives of their own. If PR were repealed and a city-wide plurality election put in its stead, it is doubtful that the so-called "better elements" of Cambridge could have a voice in city administration. The CCA has in the past been composed mainly of these better elements--to Harvard students, the intelligentsia of the community...