Rumors on Grand Jury and City Council Budgets
Rumors swirl about a Grand Jury session next week and city politics as the Budget Examiner and council prepare the 1941 budget. Licenses clerks Blanche Ryan and Mary Calnan receive near 120 renewals for 1941 liquor licenses with praise for speed and courtesy. Cambridge endures a blizzard with traffic delays cleared by early morning crews and subway signals slowing Harvard Square crowds. Councillor Donovan leads a toastmaster role at the Rindge School Alumni banquet. Continued on Page 8.
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Grand Jury
Cecil Fraser
McCall
Blanche Ryan
Mary Calnan
The
Sentinel
Cambridge
Mahoney
Harvard Sq. Bound
Longfellow Bridge
Donovan
Rindge School
License Board Hears Complaints On Local Licenses
Attorney for Marion L. Hurley urges license acceptance for an 8 first class 2 car garage at 649 651 Mt Auburn St. The Tavarrs oppose. Board to view premises. Police complaints against Kotler and Laterza continued as police seek revocation of Sunday licenses. Moral charges discussed in East Cambridge Court. Attorney James Fitzgerald appears.
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Atty
Daniel J. Crowley
Marion L. Hurley
Mt. Auburn St
S. Tavarre
Ludwig Kotler
East Cambridge Court
Atty. Jas. F. Fitzgerald
Free Thanksgiving Turkeys Drawn At Local Market and Theater
15 turkeys were given away this week through the cooperation of Manager William Taylor of the Manhattan Market and the Central Theater. Manager Corkery announced the winning numbers from the stage, inviting attendees to enjoy the prize.
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Mgr
Wm. Taylor
Manhattan Market
Mgr. Corkery
Cambridge Elks Memorial Services Speaker Named
Clement A. Norton of Boston School Rd will deliver the principal address at Cambridge Elks annual memorial services tomorrow night at Elks Hall. Norton, a noted New England orator, will be featured with a select musical program. Stewart F. Cooper chairs the arrangements committee.
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Clement A. Norton
Boston School Rd
Cambridge
Dreamland City Council Snaps to Sleep Through Budget Night
Dreamland councilors slumbered through a half hour meeting while Clerk Burke read an application for city manager. William E B Schmutl of Toledo, a Federal Works Administrator, seeks a personal interview. By trimming 39111 dollars from several departments funds were freed for the Fire Dept salary line as transfers were approved.
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Burke
Wm. EB. Schmutl
Toledo
Ohio
Fire Dept
Safety First winners banner awarded to Cambridge Electric Light Co
The State Safety Council awarded Cambridge Electric Light Co a flag banner for top safety in July to September. The company reported no lost-time accidents across 111 760 man hours, matching a June record. The committee includes K G Gillis as chairman and representatives from four departments.
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Blackstone St
Cambridge Electric Light Co
State Safety Council
K. G. Gillis
Cambridge Red Cross reports strong roll call and Greece relief
Cambridge Red Cross reports robust roll calls from the house-to-house division and notes total relief for Greece reaching fifty thousand dollars. American aid includes thirty-five thousand dollars to the Greek Red Cross, ten thousand previously, and five thousand in canned milk from Yugoslavia.
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Cambridge
Red Cross
American Red Cross
Greek Red Cross
Yugoslavia
Greece
London
Norman H. Davis
United States
Great Britain
Red Grees
Women's Voluntary Services
Davis
Fox and Tishman Will Play Santa Claus
Needy families at Kendall 5q. will receive a well supplied Xmas table from Fox & Tishman Delicatessen at 304 Main St. The cafe and liquor dealers will distribute Xmas baskets loaded with turkey and groceries from Engine 7 fire house to those deemed worthy.
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Kendall 5Q
Fox & Tishman
Main St
Engine 7
Christmas Seal Campaign Opens in Cambridge
Cambridge marks the thirty fourth annual Christmas Seal Campaign against tuberculosis with Mayor John W Lyons opening ceremonies. The campaign promotes buying seals to fund the national fight and features children singing carols on the poster. Attendees included Dr Hilbert F Day and Miss Mabel M Brown, plus local matrons assisting with posters and placards.
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John W. Lyons
Cambridge
Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association
Hilbert F. Day
Association
Mabel M. Brown
Ernest Begien
John Ales
Theodore G. Ames
Robert H. Davison
Samuel Dayton Doggett
Ewan Gardner
John Martin
John L. Middleton
Daniel B. Wetherell
Cambridge Parking Woes Highlight Need for Off Street Lots
A Boston Herald piece urges Cambridge merchants to push for large off street parking areas to solve chronic curb space shortages in Central and Harvard Squares. It notes few centers have modern parking and busy days force long searches for spots, harming business.
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Central
Harvard
The
Boston Herald
Cambridge
Manhattan Market
Central Sq
Big Bear
Mt. Auburnway
Sears, Roebuck
No. Cambridge
Cottaze
Harvard Sqs
Boston
Herald
School board debates teaching P R plan in high schools
Commentary criticizes James M. Landis for urging Plan FE and sample balloting in upper high schools as propaganda. The piece argues education should focus on constitutional democracy and warns plural voting experiments before voters are of age.
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James M. Landis
P. R
Landis
P. BR
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Frances Langford
Richard Carlson
Libby's
SAM_ALPERT
Eli
Fred Olsson
Che Art Shop
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Harvard Sq
Elks’ Memorial Services
City Council
Dreamland
Chauncey Depew Steele
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Continental Hotel
Chas. S. Hurley
Commonwealth Avenue
Cambridge Red Cross
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Santa Claus
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Home Tel Loan Corp
Cambridge Savings Bank
Cambridgeport Savings Bank
East Cambridge Savings Bank
Cambridge Street
North Avenue Savings Bank
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