Word: ward
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...Eighty to 90 per cent of the new registrants will support the aims of the convention, Stuart Vidockler, chairman of the Cambridge Convention '75 Steering Committee, said earlier this month. Vidockler said that in ward four alone there are 5000 to 10,000 unregistered voters, many of whom are in the so-called "young and transient" groups likely to support the lobby...
...National Guardsmen into the Louisville area. Later on Saturday morning police in Louisville arrested 75 sign-carrying people (including the Grand Dragon of Kentucky's Ku Klux Klan) who were assembling in the downtown area despite a ban ordered by Mayor Sloane on parades and demonstrations. Soon after ward, several truckloads of armed Guardsmen were moved into the business district. Declared the National Guard commander: "They will be used when and where needed until order is restored...
...Davis' stance on gun control is something else again. He says that all too many of his city's affluent "swimming-pool Communists" pose a serious threat to law-and-order. Respectable citizens, he says, should arm themselves to ward off domestic terrorism, and to be ready for some as yet undefined coastal invasion. Pot smokers also rank high on the chief's enemies' list. Last spring Davis dispatched 75 officers to a series of rock concerts, and they rounded up over 500 fans...
Beacon Hill is about an Irish family newly arrived at affluence and influence in Boston during the 1920s. Old Benjamin Lassiter (Stephen Elliott) was obviously suggested by Old Joe Kennedy: bootleg whisky and ward politics are his main concerns. The children, however, are not at all like the Kennedys. The only son, Robert, mopes around drinking mostly because he left an arm in Flanders fields. He does provide what passes for the central dramatic point of the first episode by leaving a formal dinner party to visit a cathouse. As for his sisters, they are an equally sorry lot: Fawn...
Returning to politics after 28 years, Solano has been a member of the Democratic City and Ward Committee in Somerville, a delegate to the first Democratic pre-primary convention in Worcester, and the recreation commissioner in Somerville from...