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...School Democrats participated in the registration drive this month and are now engaged in house to house canvassing for the CCA in the sixth ward, first precinct. This comprises the area around Cambridge High and Latin School...

Author: By Mark L. Goodman, | Title: College Political Clubs Concentrate On November Elections, Plan for '52 | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

...election day, members of the club will work at the polls in that precinct. Activities there will consist of handing out lists of CCA candidates to voters, and telephoning registrants to send them to the polls...

Author: By Mark L. Goodman, | Title: College Political Clubs Concentrate On November Elections, Plan for '52 | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

...Young Republicans are doing similar work in their district, comprising the area from the Freshman Union to Putnam Square. Members of the Group are now canvassing all the registered voters in their precinct, and will take charge of poll-watching and checking...

Author: By Mark L. Goodman, | Title: College Political Clubs Concentrate On November Elections, Plan for '52 | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

...Senate investigating committee. Many citizens mistakenly assumed that this statement by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a piece of pious patter. But Bill Boyle was in sober earnest. His mother is still honored in Kansas City as one of Boss Tom Pendergast's best precinct workers of the 1920s. Friends of the family, discussing Bill Boyle, say somewhat condescendingly that he is a nice, pleasant fellow; Clara, his mother, now retired, was "the politician of the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boyle's Law | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...American Legion (he is a World War I veteran) and of such stage friends as Tallulah Bankhead, a longtime subscriber and general booster. Thanks largely to Stein and the Star, patients at Carville have established their right to vote (a technicality of state law once disfranchised them); their precinct is usually the first in the state to report. They have won the right to have visitors, a month's leave a year when their disease is quiescent. Stein will not rest until state and federal laws recognize that, except among children, Hansen's is one of the least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crusade in Carville | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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