Word: controller
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...turn of the century, however, the Irish began four decaded of control over the city. John H. McNamee, Cambridge's first Irish mayor, was elected in 1901, and, like all mayors of the day, brought cohorts with him to city hall. Untill World War II, if the mayor was not an Irishman, a majority of the City Council...
...with the adoption of a Plan E government, the Irish were finally forced to share their power. Although they lost some of their control, their impact. remains. A significant number of Cantabrigins today still trace their roots to the Irish--and Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. is Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...historians writing at the turn of the century said, "One public service of the church deserves special mention, namely its assistance to the cause of temperance and clean speech. Most of the churches have strong temperance organizations which have already rendered good service in the movement to control the liquor traffic...
...Watertowne crime wave under control, the government decided in 1635 to run a ferry from the foot of Boylston St. to Boston. A year later, an event of even greater significance to the city's future--the general court decided to build a college in Massachusetts, and as a site chose Cambridge, named for the English college town on a river. With the grant of 2 2/3 acres from the city, Harvard opened a small school to educate the clergy...
...student demand in the 1969 strike was an end to University evictions of city tenants; the demand reflected the increasing crisis in housing that in 1970 led the City Council to enact rent control legislation while hundreds of partisans looked...