Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following Wednesday, the Cambridge City Council and the Board of Aldermen tabled all regular business and met in joint session to listen to Mayor James A. Fox, who issued a proclamation declaring Monday, October 3 a public holiday and urged the people of Cambridge "to unite in a testimonial to the martyred president." "Never, at least since the death of Lincoln, has there been such general absorption in a public question," the Cambridge Chronicle declared between its black borders. Indeed, the weekly Chronicle devoted a large portion of its two news and commentary pages to the matter. In addition...
...November, the new company was petitioning the Aldermen for extension permits. Heated discussion proceeded the November 23 hearing; the Chronicle ran several editorials urging the denial of their request, questioning the legality of the move and accusing the company of ulterior motives. At the meeting, one Alderman--Francis L. Chapman--requested a legal opinion from the city solicitor. A representative from C.R.R. countered that the city had no right to deny the request, that only the Supreme Court had jurisdiction. None of the debate really mattered. The Board voted to grant permission, Chapman casting the only dissenting vote...
Though Haggerty denied the charges--the men, he said, were drinking cider, the pump, he explained, had been used to fill some bottles which a woman had purchased but a few moments earlier--the Aldermen took away his permit. "In any other case but a liquor case," the Chronicle observed, "the evidence given by the defense would have outweighed that of the accusing officer." But liquor in Cambridge in 1881 was not just another case...
...River Railway captured seats from all but wards two and three, and Alderman Chapman, the lone dissenter on the vote to grant C.R.R. the extension permit lost his chair. The outcome of the liquor license question was unclear--the tally on the referendum changed with each recount--but five aldermen elected were considered anti-license. "Cambridge is to be given prophibition by the railroad, this is the result and the only result of last Tuesday's election," the paper declared...
Francis Bakey, Ward 2 alderman, and his opponent Edward Hardy traded charges last week over the Board of Aldermen's approval of the proposal last July...