Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge's new mayor, Edward J. Sullivan, said last night that he hopes the University will "see things my way" in the next two years and "give this great city a break by cooperating better than in the past." He added that "inconsiderate student parking" was the main sore point between students and local citizens, and he advocated banning all undergraduate cars except emergency cases...
...fouth time in ten years, it has taken a political deal to elect a mayor of Cambridge. After two fruitless weeks of balloting, Councillor Edward J. Sullivan backed into the mayor's chair after he had persuaded fellow Councillor Thomas M. McNamara to climb off the political fence and into the Sullivan camp. Next week, Sullivan will appoint McNamara chairman of the Council's Finance Committee...
While a non-political city manager holds most of the city's executive power, the mayor is nevertheless much more than a figurehead. Sullivan, for example, will have the controlling vote on both the City Council--which must approve all municipal expenditures and improvements--and the School Committee which controls the community's elementary and secondary schools. The Council can also hire and fire the manager; Sullivan might be only too happy to get rid of the incumbent, John J. Curry '19, and install one of his own supporters, 200 of whom crowded the Council chamber yesterday to cheer...
From CBS's point of view, Kingsley's attitude toward current television is not revolutionary. He likes to watch fights, Jackie Gleason and Ed Sullivan-which, happily, are all on CBS. He is impressed by the dramatic shows, and feels that quiz programs are only doing "what has been done since time immemorial: rewarding people for their knowledge." Because of TV's enormous potential for both good and evil, Kingsley thinks that it would be almost criminal for any major artist to ignore it: "The influence of TV can shape an election; thus it can shape...
After the first six ballots for mayor taken over the past two weeks, independent councillor Edward J. Sullivan is in the lead with four votes, one shy of the necessary five. The fifth independent, Thomas M. McNamara, has consistently withheld his vote from Sullivan in hopes that he himself may become mayor. The four Civic Association councillors have abstained in the voting thus...