Word: plan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...called to active duty, there was still speculation that the 26th Division might go in the near future. If so, informed sources said last night, students may be able to get discharges and become subject to the regular draft. At least, the sources said, there is such a plan under consideration...
...When Plan E finally got to the polls in November, it failed by 1000 votes. Not until 1940 was Plan E accepted by the voters of Cambridge...
...that the city manager is more powerful than the former mayor; independent of the electorate, he can carry on relations almost as he pleases. John B. Atkinson, who has held the post since the installation of this form of government, says, "it is the kind of men elected under Plan E, rather than the system, which has bettered relationships." He points out the high number of college graduates on the Council and School Board, including four men with Harvard degrees...
...Dunster Houses, it decided to pay a sum "in lieu of taxes" on the property. One reason for this action was the Council's threat to halt Harvard's buying of high tax rate land along the river. The agreement has carried on and was renewed when the first Plan E Council took office...
Especially since the inauguration of Plan E, the city has called on professors to serve on its boards of experts. Gordon M. Fair, master of Dunster House, for instance, is now a member of the water board, while Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, works with the Civic Unity Committee, a group engaged in combatting prejudice. Dean Hudnut helped plan the Cambridge War Memorial at the Council's request, and Professor Alfred D. Simpson of the School of Education prepared the report which has been the basis for Cambridge public school reform since...