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...controversial issue of "boss rule" will come in for heated discussion tonight, when Law Forum speakers Robert S. Allen and Edward J. Flynn square off on the question: "Should Political Machines be Abolished in the United States?" at 7:45 o'clock in the Rindge Tech Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum: Flynn vs. Allen | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

Dunster House gained undisputed possession of first place in the intramural basketball league yesterday after whipping a scrappy Dudley quintet, 54 to 45. Joe Flynn led the victors with 21 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters Advance To First Place in House Basketball | 3/9/1948 | See Source »

Regimented Communists? The result not only flabbergasted New York's newspapers and professional politicians, but virtually sent Ed Flynn into limbo. Leo Isacson gathered up 22,697 votes to Propper's 12,578-in a district where A.L.P. registration is only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: They Voted Against Us | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...until a short time before election did Boss Flynn appear to realize that Isacson was making dangerous inroads. He called on New York's ailing Mayor Bill O'Dwyer and Eleanor Roosevelt to prop up Propper. The best O'Dwyer could do was appeal to Wallace to come back to the Democratic Party. For his final rally, Isacson drew an overflow crowd of 8,500, who came to hear Wallace and such other notables of the far left as Singer Paul Robeson and Congressman Vito Marcantonio. At another rally the same night Prizefighter Champion Joe Louis, contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: They Voted Against Us | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Republicans thought it was a sure sign that they would walk off with New York's 47 electoral votes in November. Boss Flynn blamed it all on the "regimented Communists." But an anonymous Democratic ward heeler put his finger on what really happened. Said he: "We got out the voters, but they voted against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: They Voted Against Us | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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