Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incumbent Edward J. Sullivan, also an independent, doubts that plurality elections will bring machines back to Cambridge. "Let's say we'll have well-organized politics...
...Atkinson was the shrewdest politician that ever hit the town," Sullivan says. "He kidded the public for 11 years with phony tax reductions. The people of Cambridge are gradually catching up to the CCA as they caught up to Atkinson. The CCA is made up of a lot of carpet-baggers anyway," he concludes...
...around here say, 'Oh nuts, election day . . . better get my beer, today, they'll be closed tomorrow.'"Dennis Sintiris, Cambridge barber for 36 years, likes PR and adds, "I gotta vote people I know. If I start vote everyone, won't do any good. Just gonna vote Santoro and Sullivan. No others." This is commonly known as bullet-voting...
...cannot endorse Hyman Pill nor Andrew Trodden any more than we can endorse such non-CCA incumbents as Edward Sullivan, John Foley and John Lynch. Pill, while not disturbing anyone, has contributed very little to Cambridge civic improvement, while the CCA has never explained why Trodden, a man of no apparent qualifications, deserves backing from either the Association or from Cambridge...
Offenbach," and of his amorous consolations. In ignoring the merry truth about Sullivan (who did nothing worse than lonesomeness will make an emotional bachelor do), the moviemakers were doubtless bent on getting their man past the modern censors. In his own time, Sullivan was approved by a rather stricter custodian of morals: Queen Victoria, who granted him a knighthood...