Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close cultural relations with Europe. For this reason my personal bias is in favor of Britain's entering. And I have not been impressed by the emotional appeals of some of those who maintain that to take this course would be betrayal of our obligations to the Commonwealth...
After six years of fighting a hostile Democratic machine, Endicott Peabody has won a high elective office in the Commonwealth. He brings to the Governorship ambitious plans for reforming many of the archaic, corrupt practices of Massachusetts government. Peabody has proposed constitutional reforms which would strengthen the authority of a woefully impotent executive, reduce the workload of an overburdened legislature, and strike at corruption in Massachusetts by ending the confusion which surrounds much activity on Beacon Hill...
...Square doesn't improve radically, there will be more than just nominal enforcement of the law sometime next spring." Then the legislature passed the law last spring, it left adoption and enforcement up to the individual communities. unless the City adopts the anti-jay-walking measure, Rudolph says, the Commonwealth will deny Cambridge's legal to enforce certain kinds of new traffic laws. This would apply to motor vehicle or pedestrian rulings at any new traffic light the city installs, or at any traffic light system now operating which underrgoes repair of revision...
Volpe has been preparing for the recount during the week since the election by building a network of 400 Republican as who will scrutinize the returns in the Commonwealth's 351 cities and towns to check for irregularities. Volpe's recount team will work under the supervision of Frederick Wheeler, assistant press secretary to the governor...
Whatever the outcome of the Commonwealth's gubernatorial contest, the Democrats fared well in other races around the Nation. They captured a 68-32 majority in the Senate, the largest margin since 1938, and maintained a substantial edge in the House of Representatives...