Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor made the grade on the first ballot after C.C.A.-endorsed Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 made a speech changing from abstention to a vote for McNamara. At this point, there were four abstentions, two votes for McNamara, two vote for ex-Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, and one vote for Councilor Charles A. Watson...
...Voted Against Sullivan...
Weighing against Sullivan this year will be the tradition that no Cambridge mayor should serve two terms. Though he polled a heavy plurality of the city last November, Sullivan has only one pledged supporter, old-timer John D. Lynch, in the Council...
Another likely candidate for mayor is Councilor Thomas McNamara, who has received the pledge of Al Vellucci's vote on the first ballot. In the 1956 elections, McNamara abstained for two weeks before casting the fifth and deciding ballot for Sullivan...
Councilor Charles A. Watson, who also tossed his hat in the ring, admitted last night that he had only one vote so far, his own. It is conceivable, though, that the C.C.A. bloc would switch its votes to Watson, rather than allow Sullivan's reelection...