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...Quinn--or Shea or Russell or Robart--for Mayor" replaces "I do not choose to run in 1928" as the up-to-date decoration of local automobiles. Torchlight parades give the Square a ghoulish light, as hundreds of horns send their echoes across the Yard. Earnest students in Widener scowl, and wonder vaguely what it is all about. It is the first Cambridge political campaign in many years that has caused them to speculate...
...Shea--who prefers to be known as "Charlie"--is running against him, with his campaign slogan "Time for a change." Richard M. Russell, like Shea a member of the City Council, has adopted the war cry of "How about it Eddie? Isn't ten years long enough?" And Ralph Robart, Quinn's opponent two years ago, lets his picture speak for itself. Truly it is a battle of great issues, and a campaign of educating the voters...
Mayor Edward W. Quinn of Cambridge was reelected for the fourth time yesterday. He defeated his only opponent, Councillor Ralph W. Robart, by the small margin of 3000 votes...
Mayor Quinn was given the hardest battle of his career. The fight made by Robart on the issue of the incompetence and dishonesty of City Treasurer Lehan nearly caused his defeat. Robart, who is only 32 years old, has been in politics only two years, whereas Quinn is now starting his ninth year in the Mayoral chair...
...Robart, according to his campaign committee, is an experienced man, and is "pledged to do away with the laxities of administration, particularly in the city treasury, which have brought the present regime and the city of Cambridge itself into disrepute...