14 Nov 1936
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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1936
Page
1
Chas. F. Hurley advertises real estate insurance and mortgage services at 276 Commonwealth Avenue offering property loans and protection. Local broker promotes deposits and title work for buyers and sellers in the area.
The article notes Kiwanis members nominate officers for 1937 as local politics stir in Cambridge with comments on the Public Safety Commissioner vote and possible liquor board actions next week. It highlights City Council moves and recalls, asking readers to watch Swenson and mayoral tax plans.
In a surprise move the City Council approved Delaney s ordinance creating a public safety commissioner with a five year term at five thousand dollars yearly to oversee Police and Fire. Final action due in two weeks. Also zoning petitions and pension actions were noted along with a reward order for a missing child.
The School Committee session led by acting auditor Russell Abner Wood discussed Roberts School recreation space and Christmas carols by city pupils. They approved using a high school room for a fire department civil service exam and accepted a fresco memorial gift for Agassiz School. The 1937 term schedule and an evening sewing teacher rule amendment were noted.
The Cambridge Taxpayers Association led by chair Stoughton Bell charges backers of a proposed ordinance create a new pay grade and assert political influence behind the measure. Bell accuses an inner ring of politicians of pushing the plan to gain control of the Cambridge police department and to nominate a commissioner.
The public is invited to hear a postal department expert explain the Social Security Act next Monday night at 7 oclock at W. C. A. Hall Temple street Central Square. President Howie McClennan will preside.
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