Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a pre-game show by the Harvard Band, the Boston Red Sox won the Fen-way Park opener yesterday, beating the Washington Senators, 7 to 3. Dick Gernert produced a home run for the winners in the game, which was marred by several errors...
Also announced Monday was the appointment of architects to design an opera house that will eventualy adjoin the new theater on the Soldiers Field Road site. Perry T. Rathbone, president of MeBAC, and Talcott M. Banks, president of the Boston Opera Association, added that contributions have been received by the Opera House Fund and will be used to finance the building...
With their retreat in the direction of Harvard Square cut off by the appearance of the Cambridge Police, the four suspects fied across the bridge. Due to the timely arrival of an MDC cruiser, however, they were apprehended before reaching the Boston side of the river...
...enthusiastic New Hampshire resident nick-named "Duke" has spent a chilly and voluntary week-end in the Charles Street jail because he objects to the Massachusetts non-resident income tax. A.A. ("Duke") Vautier, an engineer in a Boston firm, refused to pay a $140 income tax bill, and, apparently after some maneuvering, managed to get himself arrested, so that his could be a test case...
...officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts were at first amused, then bewildered, and then annoyed. The Boston newspapers have headlined the story, and made Vautier into some sort of Thoreauesque hero. Yet he has no valid legal stand. The non-resident income tax law is not new, or is it unique. Twenty-nine other states have similar statutes, and never has any been seriously contested...