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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard for most students to realize just how far poverty can drive a boy. One youth from the Dunster area told of stealing coke bottles from University buildings to collect the deposits and go to a show. "If it wasn't for those two cent bottles," he said, "there would have been several hundred less times that I would have been able to go to the movies...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: A Cancer in Cambridge: Juvenile Delinquency | 1/25/1957 | See Source »

...Income tax administration in Massachusetts has been terrible," Soloway charged. He asserted that the state could collect from five to ten million dollars more in revenue if everyone who was supposed to pay taxes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics Professor Calls for Graduated Income Tax in State | 1/23/1957 | See Source »

Shaplin revealed that he would attempt to collect 6,600 valid signatures in the next 15 days in order to revoke the committee's "illegal" appointment of the teachers in a closed session last week. Shaplin will be aided in this effort by the League of Women Voters, the P.T.A. Council, the Council of Neighborhood Associations, and the Cambridge Civic Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaplin Initiates Petition to Annul School Selections | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

...dean stressed Tuesday night the need of "every organized effort of the community" to collect the necessary signatures during the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Alan Steinert, chairman of the signature campaign, said yesterday that "this couldn't come at a more difficult time of year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaplin Initiates Petition to Annul School Selections | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

...basketball team drew its largest and noisiest audience to date last night when an estimated 75 inmates of the shiny new Walpole Penitentiary watched the Crimson collect its fourth straight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Basketball Team Beats Walpole Prison In Fourth Win 73-44 | 12/18/1956 | See Source »

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