Word: civics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather to campaign for reelection. Like the shrewd old political boss that he is, "King David" stopped at a funeral, hopped up Eleventh Ward followers to turn out the vote, popped up at rallies of the United Steelworkers and the Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free air, rising skyscrapers, parks, bridges and elevated highways. At 68, running for a fourth term, crusty, cold-eyed Dave Lawrence is one of the last of the old city bosses...
Councilor Charles A. Watson followed DeGuglielmo in a speech attacking PR. Watson scored the Cambridge Civic Association for "capitalizing on this un-American way of voting," which, he claimed, is based largely on emotional appeal
...social and cultural event of the year. Everybody dons their Western apparel (in the bigger Western cities people are fined and jailed for not doing so) and goes to the rodeo. Being head of the citizen's rodeo committee is one of the most highly honored civic positions. Many Westerners have ranch backgrounds, and even if they are not so fortunate, seeing the rodeo faithfully every year produces a certain knowledge and appreciation of rodeo skills...
Reform begat renewal. Civic-minded Bruce Palmer, president of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. announced that "thanks to the new climate." his corporation was not only staying in the city, but would also build a $10 million home office in downtown Newark. Forty citizens from the rundown Clinton Hill area hustled off to Philadelphia to study rehabilitation projects; another group went to Pittsburgh to view the Golden Triangle. The Rutgers University law faculty pitched in to help on legal problems, and Newark businessmen volunteered staff services...
...Conn, last year by the late Industrialist Archer C. Wheeler. Because the mansion stands on what is now valuable downtown real estate, Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy last August got court permission to demolish the house, build in its place a new twelve-story city hall and civic center...