Word: warded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breyor, president of the New England division, signed most of the papers last night in a Leverett House room as some 15 members of the University's movie colony watched over his shoulder, William L. Alden '50, Charles Yoder '49, and Lauriston Ward '50 then signed for Ivy Films. Final arrangements will be completed soon...
Under the agreement Ivy will receive a "considerable sum" from the Madison Agency in return for exclusive four-year rights on the film. Ward, president of Ivy Films, stated that the proceeds would easily enable the company to modernize and expand its equipment and operations with plenty left over...
American aid had rescued the country from bankruptcy-and close on bankruptcy's heels had lurked dictatorship, not necessarily Communist, but certainly of harsh totalitarian economic control. Now France, in effect, had one leg in the emergency ward and one in the convalescent ward. It was Bruce's immediate job to get France entirely out of the first and into the second...
According to Senator Melley and Representative Toomey, proportional representation is "Un-American" because it "does away with the two party system," and PR "accentuates minorities." They refer to the fact that under PR all citizens vote on all city Council seats, so a simple ward majority cannot elect a candidate, and candidates can run without party label. However, proponents of this method of voting state that it eliminates the evils of the ward system and destroys the power of the "ward boss" over city officials; the councilmen are responsible only to the people And, since the Council in turn appoints...
...successful that five other cities in the state have adopted the plan, and the fight for its adoption in Boston still continues. If Senate 5, or any one of its ilk, passes the legislature, Cambridge and other Plan E cities will have to return to old methods of voting, ward system and all. Plan E, an effective means for achieving municipal reform, will be emasculated; the politicians who would like a return to old times, as well as those who want no change in present city government, would have what they've been after all along...