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Word: charlestown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Numerous expedients, providing an interesting comparison with today's high-powered fund drives, were used to raise money. Harvard had no endowment at the time, but the General Court of Massachusetts granted the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry to the College. This amounted to about 30 pounds a year, mostly in fake wampum. More money came from gifts and, sometimes, from community subscriptions. But the chief source of revenue was the plain generosity of the people of New England. From 1644 to 1652 enough families contributed a peck of wheat or a shilling of money to support the entire...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: The Growth and Development of a University | 10/31/1956 | See Source »

...nonmilitary activities as cake-baking, dry cleaning and coffee-roasting. The section was tacked on to the bill by members of the House and Senate whose districts vare graced with such federal activities, e.g., Leverett Saltonstall. the Senate G.O.P. whip, who was protecting the rope-twisting installation at the Charlestown, Mass, navy yard. President Eisenhower had a hard label for the Capitol Hill handiwork: "An unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Invasion Repulsed | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Massachusetts State Prison, a cramped compound of blackened granite and dilapidated brick buildings in the Charlestown section of Boston, is the oldest, most disreputable prison in the U.S. It was built in 1805, has been damned for 80 years as a verminous pesthole, unfit for human habitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: The Siege of Cherry Hill | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...across the prison yard, "and all five of your screws die." Massachusetts Attorney General George Fingold replied over a public-address system: "If one of those guards dies, you all die in the electric chair." As news of the big break spread, the public and the press swarmed to Charlestown. Press helicopters whirled overhead, and photographers swung perilously above the prison wall on a crane. State troopers converged on Charlestown, and a Walker Bulldog tank lumbered up to the prison gates. The Rev. Edward Hartigan, the prison's Roman Catholic chaplain, was permitted to enter Cherry Hill to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: The Siege of Cherry Hill | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...forces of public safety in this Common wealth have responded to the challenge of a new era in warfare. They have followed the lead of the national administration in adopting a policy of massive retaliation to deal with the forces that threaten us. Faced with the recent uprising in Charlestown, they did not attempt simply to put more men under arms than the enemy could muster. Realizing that the salaries paid penal officers could never compete with the quick riches to be won by a criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If War Comes | 1/25/1955 | See Source »

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