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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Doan James M. Landis' pet baby, Plan E and proportional representation for Cambridge, is apparently in for more trouble despite the 7,500 vote majority given it in an election referendum. Yesterday Assistant City Solicitor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo, acting as a private attorney, filed a petition asking the Supreme Judicial Court to declare that form of government unconstitutional...
Commenting on the action, Jeremiah Downey, Chairman of the Committee on Finance for Plan E, stated last night that the petition was a "desperate effort on the part of the politicians to keep themselves in power." Dean Landis himself was out of town and could not be reached...
When DeGuglielmo was questioned last night, he expressed great confidence in the success of his petition. "It takes away the right to vote and to have that vote counted," and that in his opinion makes Plan E unconstitutional...
While not attacking Plan E directly, the Assistant City Solicitor hopes that by throwing out the proportional representation parts of the Plan, the rest of it will collapse, since the whole plan is constructed with "PR" as a base...
...conference committee under Chairman Thomas H. E. Quimby '40 consists of: John C. Lacey '42, William T. Munson '42, Robert H. Orchard '42, Stanford L. Optner '42, Gerald Eisner '42, and Harry Newman...