Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Longfellow never wrote it, but he owed the great-great-grandfather of Charles Gates Dawes a poem. On the night when Paul Revere "spread the alarm through every Middlesex village and farm" between Charlestown and Lexington, William Dawes was rousing the sleepy colonists between Boston and Concord. In recent American history, the Dawes name has been hitched to three things-a pipe, a plan and a peppery phrase. The pipe was a low, underslung affair that traveled the smoke along a 15-inch channel, the plan was a reparations agreement that helped put Germany on its feet...
Small Alarm. In Charlestown, Mass., when a fire trapped Mr. & Mrs. Michael McCarthy in their third-floor bedroom, he pitched an alarm clock through the bunk-room window of a firehouse 40 feet away to arouse firemen...
...important factor in the club's success, which Bill did not mention, is the generally high level of inmates assigned to Norfolk. No man is ever committed to Norfolk directly from the courts. He is first assigned to either State Prison at Charlestown, Concord Reformatory or the State Frm. Norfolk receives all its inmates by transfer from these other institutions...
...State Transfer Board, explained that every man at State Prison and Concord is screened at one time or another by his board for transfer to Norfolk. Originally, he said, it was hoped that all transfers would be excellent rehabilitation prospects. However because of overcrowding at the other institutions, especially Charlestown, the colony has had to receive well-behaved inmates who may have serious prior records and are frequently not the best prospects for satisfactory rehabilitation...
...October 7, 1640 Harvard's investment history officially began with the State of massachusetts granting it the concession of the Boston Charlestown Ferry. The University, seemingly not even impressed by the fact the members of the corporation could travel free here, rented the ferry out, but soon found that that can be even worse. The rents were usually paid in wampum and much bad wampum ended up in the University's pockets...