Council approves zoning change for Tech land on Memorial Drive
Councillors vote 14 to 1 to reclassify Tech owned property from residence to business district on Memorial Drive. The session includes critiques of city traffic, police protection, and call for WPA style projects and better signs. Leader Winslow pushes an amendment for three year demolition deferment amid housing shortages.
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Memorial Drive
Winslow
Sumner K. Wiley
Washington, D. C
Cambridge
Roche
Dept. of Public Works
Huron Ave
Toomey
Donovan
State Dept. of Public Works
Banks
M.D.C
Magazine Beach
Granite St
Pres. McNamara
Hillis
Cottage Farm Bridge
Lyons
St Marys School Students Present The Music Box Revue
St Marys School in St Eg Hall hosts its annual show for children with 500 participants in The Music Box Revue. Grace Bates directs, with reports for adults on Monday and Tuesday evenings.
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St.eg Hall
St. Mary's Eeemar School
Grace Bates
Harvard Bazar
City Hall Grapples With Budget Talk and City Rumors
Whispers point to tense budget sessions led by Mayor Lyons, as department heads brace for scrutiny. City Treasurer Andrew P. Carroll recovers in Miami after surgery, with family by his side, while officials debate meeting lengths and traffic enforcement notes surface amid a busy Cambridge week.
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Frank Sennett
Andrew P. Carroll
Miami
Fla
Lyons
Frank Larkin
Cambridge Lodge of Elks
Battim Club
Baltimore
Frank
M ' Bill Bowie
Tim Good
Él Commr
Frank McDonald
City
Aes
Leahy
Tis
Cambridge
State Armory
Rooms for light housekeeping near Central Square
To let near Central and Q rooms for light housekeeping. Business women or girls preferred. Clean, warm rooms. 26 Green Street rear.
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Central &Q
Green Street
School Ed Debating Kettle Stirs School Board Affair
The school board with most members present debated exams for teachers and funding for bus transport. Mayor Lyons offered refreshments for glee club singers as the board considered naming the Assembly Hall for Headmaster Leslie L. Cleveland and possibly distributing a book titled Why Is America.
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John F. Carr, Jr
Messrs
Cassidy
Galgay
Lyons
Supt
Fitzgerald
Robart
America
H. and L. School
Onit
Leslie L. Cleveland
Jas
Cleveland
H. and L
Wood
Mayor urged to veto Memorial Drive development plan
The author criticizes the City Council for allowing Technology to sell land along Memorial Drive for ice cream parlors and gas stations. They urge Mayor Lyons to veto the policy, protect the riverfront, and push for building restrictions to preserve the area west of Harvard Bridge amid upcoming political pressures.
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Memorial Drive
Lyons
Harvard Bridge
Forris W Norris Advocates Memorial Drive Development
A Cambridge note from F W Norris praising his early riverfront plans and urging protection of Memorial Drive. He recalls building Strathmore Hall, Radnor Hall, Hampstead Hall, Barrington Court, Bexley Hall, and argues that the Memorial Drive site offers premier residential potential amid encroaching business. He links Technology’s educational growth to stable area development.
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Memorial Drive
F. W. Norris
Riverbank
Cambridge Sentinel
Henry
Cambridge
River Front
Strathmore Hall
Radnor Hall
Hampstead Hall
Barrington Court
Charles River Road
Ash Street
Cambridge Gas Light Company
Norris
Bexley Hall
Massachusetts Avenue
Princeton Avenue
Boston
Amesbury Street
20th Annual Christmas Basket Dance Announced
On Wednesday evening December 18 Corporal Russell E Hoyte Post No 299 Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold their annual Christmas Basket Dance at their headquarters 88 Austin Street. Committee members include Commander Edward F Trainor Warren Vigneau J V C John Jenkins William M Hogan Joseph L Harrington Edward R Harrington Ralph Thomas William Villar.
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Russell E. Hoyte Post
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Austin St
Edward F. Trainor
Warren Vigneau
J. V. C. John Jenkins
William M. Hogan
Joseph L. Harrington
Edward R. Harrington
Ralph Thomas
William Villar
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TECH
John
Mary
Hamilton
Boylston $T
Harvard
Fell Bes of Wines & Liquens Perveds Coe Delivery
ST. Mary’s Group
Chee Met
Dick Tracy
Ace ‘Bee
E Withers
Ritz Bros
Saelees
John J. McGillicuddy
Sentinel
Arthur D. Little, Inc
National Research Council
Stevens
Couraey
Washington
Raymond Stevens
Utisitource Department
Electric Supply CO. and
Camera Exchange
Mase
Fred Olsson
Boylston SI
Harvard Square
Cambridge Savings Bank
Nerweed Square
Cambridgeport East
Cambridg Savings Bank Savings Bank
Cambridge Streat
North Avenue Savings Bank
Chas. F. Burley
Commonwealth Avenue
Stirs
Lyons Halls
MR. Mayor
Forris W. Norris
Cambridge Realty
Larchwood
Lipton
Bird Seed & Biscuit
Bird Gravel
Danile
Hershey's
Hershey
PEG
Woodbury
Mees
Bersum & GO. Ine Ik
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