Word: sullivane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent side, Councillor Edward J. Sullivan leads in a spectacular showing with 2,907 firsts. Observers thought that Sullivan, considered politically weak, would loose many votes because of a split home ward...
Suddenly, windows began opening in Strauss Hall and freshmen booed and cat-called. The din became increasingly greater, and Sullivan yelled louder and louder into the microphone. Finally the students managed to drown out Sullivan...
...while, it appeared that Sullivan had lost the battle of the sounds, but from the Yard appeared Sergeant Toomey who directed the students to close their windows. The noise subsided and Sullivan lashed out once again...
...another complication arose. Edward F. Mahan, president of the CCA, walked by Sullivan's sound truck. Sullivan asked Mahan to refuse any of his attacks. Mahan agreed, and began walking toward the truck when a person sitting with Sullivan jumped out and grappeled with Mahan But two Cambridge policemen and several bystanders seized the unidentified Sullivan supporter and separated him from Mahan...
...Sullivan then refused to allow Mahan to speak from his microphones, saying that only independent candidates could use them. Mahan consented and left. The few hundred people who watched the incident dispersed, and Sullivan departed...