Word: benway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Benway, one of the selectmen of Mashpee, said last month the trial has caused the "economic strangulation of the town and the heightening of personal disagreements." He cited sharp drops in tax revenue and land values because the lawsuit has placed all land title in question...
Gerwitz said George Benwag, chairman of the Mashpee Board of Selectmen, was one of these forces. He added Benway "posed as an impartial arbiter" at a homeowner's meeting regarding the land claim suit but testified in behalf of the prosecution in this case. Gerwitz said this was "a little strange...
...Benway was a main instigator in the case," Mills said, adding, "Selectmen are the top execs in town, including the police force. He is pushing against the land suit because of his real estate interests...
...Benway testified in court last March 26, "I did have a real estate business but now 90 per cent of it is null and void...
Inevitably, the wave of claims has stirred up anti-Indian hostility. "We are bitter," says George Benway, chairman of the selectmen of Mashpee, Mass., one besieged town on Cape Cod. In a combative spirit sardonically known as "whitelash," the Town of Mashpee has filed a countersuit against the Wampanoag tribe -demanding $200 million as the cost of all accrued improvements'if the Wampanoags should win their claim to much of the town's property...