Word: votes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election of officers of the State of Massachusetts will take place today. The polls will be open from 6 A. M. to 4.30 P. M. All registered voters who live in Precinct 2, Ward 8, will vote between these hours in the booth in the centre of Quincy square. Those voters who live in Precinct 1, Ward 9, will cast their ballots in the Ward Room of the City Building, Brattle square. The line dividing the two wards passes north from Boylston street up Massachusetts avenue, Ward 8 being on the east of this line, and including the Yard...
...addition, citizens of Cambridge who have registered will be called upon to vote on the proposed plan to change the government of the city of Cambridge. This plan, known as Plan B, proposes to abolish the present system of electing II aldermen and 22 councilmen, and substitute in its place a single body composed of one alderman from each of the 11 wards and four elected at large...
...question of an amendment of the constitution of the commonwealth alleging women to vote will also be voted at on today...
...further investigation or action will be made by the Middlesex County Grand Jury against members of the University in connection with the alleged illegal registering to vote in Cambridge at the coming elections. This statement was made by District Attorney William J. Corcoran yesterday after the proceedings in the morning. The decision came as a result of the testimony of Professor Felix Frankfurter of the Law School, representing President Lowell, in which he explained the attitude of the University toward the matter...
...always expressions of opinions as to interests, both public and private, rather than an actual recording of such interests. If elections always determined the real interests of the majority we should never see corrupt and inefficient public officials, bad laws, and bad governments and disastrous policies. And if the vote were always the true recording of the individual's real interest, parties would be made up entirely of classes; and single groups, social economic and political, would always vote as units since their interests would be individual. However, there hardly seems to exist at present any such unanimity...