City Hall gossip and city staff chatter mix with social rumors
A column notes eerie quiet at City Hall corridors as job seekers arrive with letters from officials. It mentions Chief Leshy’s highway sightings, a high school graduation address by John F. Carr, and a busy June 24 license hearing. Reports also touch on a social club plan, Elks Ladies Night, and a birthday party for Blanche Waleks with partygoers and gifts.
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Leshy
John F. Carr
Jim Fitzgerald
Supreme Court
Daesmond
Kay Hurley
Hood
Cambridge Lodge of Elks
Main St
Blanche Waleks
City Auditor’s Dept
Blanche
Red Cross and University Theater Combine in Unique Exhibit
The Red Cross teams with the University theatre to open a summer series of exhibits in the university lobby. The program runs afternoons and evenings starting next Monday with ongoing shows through the season. details appear on page 4.
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RED Cross and
University Theatre
Red Cross
The
Univer
Council Favors Roche Urges Halt to Aggressive Trade
Councillor Roche asks the U S government to sever trade relations with aggressor nations amid warning of fuel shortages. He criticizes soft policies toward Axis-aligned states and calls for stronger action, noting intensified German consular presence in the United States. Two orders for the State Department totaling 243,122 were adopted at the banks’ request related to municipal loans.
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Roche
U.S
U. S
Attys
St. Dept
Chamber of Commerce Grows by Eighty-One Members
The Chamber of Commerce reports 81 new members led by MacKenzie Motors with 12 and Samuel H. Zitter with 10. Groups under John Sereno and Alan Switzer teams contributed the rest as Gray Co. exec Tonon and aids oversaw the drive. Cambridge firms such as Adley Express and Boston Metal Doors are named among new members. A Fresh Pond Golf Club issue prompted Supt. Mahoney to seek board review of a proposed monthly meeting venue at the new Golf Club House amid club tensions and a narrowly defeated motion to reject the plan.
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Chamber of Commerce
A MacKenzie
MacKenzie Motors
Samuel H. Zitter
MacKenzie
John Sereno
Alan Switzer
Paul Corcoran
E. J. Norris
Pres
Tonon
Gray Co
Albert F. White
Flash Chemical
J. Lawlor
Middlesex Hospital
Fresh Pond
John Spencer
Corkery
Guiney
Senate Snags Sennott Bill On Cambridge Executive
Senate advances the Sennott measure to empower a responsible Cambridge executive to fill Mayor Lyons's term. The proposal, from a city committee led by Senator Blanchard, seeks full or temporary powers with variations from opponents. The effort faces political maneuvering and continues in the Senate.
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Blanchard
Pres. Sennott
Senate
Cambridge
Legislative Special Committee
Committee On Cities
Republican City Committee
Sennett
Lyons
Strait Walsh Nuptials Put Boston Clergy in Spotlight
Beatrice A Walsh of 671 Mass Ave and Rev Edmund Strait wed last Saturday at College Ave Methodist Somerville. The Rev Dr Archiver Strait performed the ceremony as many Grant Building socialites attended. The couple honeymoon before Strait resumes studies at Boston University.
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Beatrice A. Walsh
John C. Haverty
Mass. Ave
Edmund R. Strait
College Ave. Methodist Church
Somerville
Archiver Strait
Strait
Boston University
Grant Building
Central Sq
Park Board Briefs Traffic Circle for Washington Elm Site
Communications Guiney proposed a traffic circle at the site of the old Washington Elm with a memorial monument or marker included as part of the plan.
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Guiney
Washington Elm
O Neill Family Fetes Rep Tom O Neill Jr at Continental
About 400 friends gathered at the Continental on Tuesday night to toast Rep Tom O Neill Jr as he faces his future. Pa O Neill and brother Bill Beamed, while ex Assistant District Attorney Fred McMenimen served as toastmaster with a brief, ceremonial speech.
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O'Neills
Rep
Tom O'Neill, Jr
Pa O'Neill
Sewers
Brother Bill
Fred
Bo) McMenimen
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John Jr. McGillicuddy
Sentinel
Cianly
John
Mary
Council
Chas. F. Burley
Commonwealth Avenue
Boston
Park Board
Ch. Spencer
Adley Express Co., Inc
American Mutual ‘Liability Insurance , Co
Apartment’ Furniture Leasing Co
Baddan Bros
M. BE. Baker & Co
Bonner Foundry Co
Boston Athletic Shoe Co
Boston Metal Doors Co
Briggs & Briggs, Inc
Burr Chromium Co., Inc
Burress Gulf Service Station
Cambridge Bargain Lynch
Arthur Mickenzie
John A. Spemcer
Sennott
Emerald Isle
MILLE
Pat Stantos
Irela
Jefferson Club Hall
Austin St. — Central Sq
Armstrong
Harvard
Craft Co. Massach
SAT
Eli
Cambridge Savings Bank
Heeverd Square
Cambridgeport Savings Bank
East Cambridge Savings Bank
Cambridge Street
North Avenue Savings Bank
Mas. Ave
Walsh
Tom O'Neill
M. M
Thomas P. O'Neill
MR. Dever
Felicity
PNT Pve
Massachusetts Avenue
Central Square
Greenwich
Asst
Jellies
Harvard Asst
Hudsonvale
Monroe
Manhattan
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