Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposition to the regime is partially eliminated by favoring workers and peasant children for admission. Since September 4, when a new reform program was instituted, students have to take a four-year course in "social sciences" in which "you learn about Marxist, Leninist, and Stalinist theories." Learning Russian is also compulsory-- "so you can read progressive literature in the original text." Those studying for any degree must first satisfy the requirements for both these courses...
Plan E was a success in Cambridge because of a powerful civic group--something other cities that adopted the Plan E charter did not have. The original reformers, members of the League of Women Voters, formed the Cambridge Committee for Plan E the predecessor of the present Cambridge Civic Association. In 1945 reform government in Cambridge nearly failed because the Cambridge Committee for Plan E had begun to lose its prestige and power by taking a virtual "holier-than thou" attitude. The Cambridge Civic Association was founded then, and from that time on, the City Council has been CCA dominated...
...most city officials agree that Cambridge today is much better off than it was in the days of the trucking and snowplow rackets and the part-time labor fraud. Before reform, some Cambridge mayors controlled the city's trucks and could assure themselves reelection by hiring extra part-time labor. For instance, one mayor was known to call up a majority of the fifteen City Councilors the night before a Council meeting almost all of whom had an interest in a trucking contract with the city for snow removal or refuse collection. Then he would warn them that unless they...
With Plan E, reform got under way and it has never stopped. "Plan E has been a success because of the Cambridge Civic Association," A. Chester Hanford, professor of Government, believes. Robert Amory, Jr. '36, professor of Law, says that one of the remarkable things about the CCA and their Cambridge reform is that "most reform movements wear off after a few years, but the CCA has kept its momentum...
...endorses Mayor John B. Hynes and those Boston City Council and School Committee candidates sponsored by the New Boston Committee, a reform group founded by Jerome D. Rappaport '45, HLU members, however, are campaigning exclusively for one school committee candidate, Mary K. Fitzgerald...