Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joined the Communist Party in 1930, Peña called a Havana convention of workers' organizations from all over Cuba in 1939 to form the C.T.C. For eight uninterrupted years, Peña and his fellow Communists controlled the confederation. But in 1947 anti-Communist Labor Minister Carlos Prío Socorrás began a campaign to oust Peña and his fellow Reds from control of Cuba's labor movement...
Councillors Wise, Belin, DeGuglielmo, and Mayor Crane voted against the Council resolution to support the bill. All four are backed by the Cambridge Civic Association, which supported PR last November...
House Bill 1493, "an act to repeal Proportional representation and preferential voting in this Commonwealth," was introduced in the Legislature in January. The citizens of Cambridge, by a narrow margin, voted in last November's election to retain PR...
Last November, the CCA waged a hard campaign for the retention of PR against the Cambridge Young Democrats, who urged abolition of the controversial system. PR survived a recount, to win by a slim margin...
...final vote established in the recount is 16,342 in favor of retaining PR and 15,840 opposed; 1021 ballots were left blank...