Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real estate developer's plan to put seven or eight apartment houses and a civic-center-auditorium on a platform above the Charles River Basin met objection yesterday as a "grandiose scheme" to create a value for essentially worthless land...
Representatives of many Boston and Cambridge civic groups are expected to appear before the Joint Committee off Cities to oppose the proposal, which, they say, would destroy the recreational value of the Basin area. Supporters of the bill argue that it would provide an important addition to Cambridge's tax base...
...would try to set up a six-week European tour in the spring of 1960, Chicago papers set up a clamor: "For the first time," wrote Critic Roger Dettmer in the American, "Chicago might have gained a reputation for something else than Prohibition Era hoodlums, gang wars and civic graft. Fritz Reiner owes Chicago an explanation...
...Brooklyn syndicate, Murder Inc. The US. Government indicted him in 1954 for income tax evasion. But Longie was no rap-rack (six months behind bars in his life): he lived in the white space around the letter of the law. Married to a handsome blonde Junior Leaguer, he was civic-minded, gave thousands to help the blind, financed soup kitchens. Recently he held an interest in the vending-machine business, was scheduled to appear before the McClellan committee. Also, the FBI has arrested several of his friends for bribing the jury that in 1956 failed to find Longie guilty...
Perhaps the Fly Club property could be appropriated; the University could remind the Fly of its civic responsibility, and put the umbrella-covered tables up in the area on Plympton Street...