Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when Massachusetts is contemplating teaching the "evils and fallacies of Communism" in its public schools, it is disturbing--if not alarming--to find the Commonwealth attempting as well to extend strong but vaguely defined controls over its institutions of higher learning...
...bill which would grant the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the right to revoke the charter of any educational institution within the state whose "curriculum, faculty, and facilities," do not meet with the approval of the Department of Education, will be called for committee hearings in the House of Representatives Monday...
...refrigerators than ever before. In the midst of this prosperity, Britain is making a number of historic decisions. Having resigned itself long ago to a reduced status in world affairs compared with the U.S. and Russia, it is also detaching itself somewhat from the historic and psychological tradition of Commonwealth and Empire. By preparing to join the Common Market, Britain in fact acknowledged that its economic destiny lies more with Europe than with the Commonwealth. But there is discontentment among Britons opposed to the changes, and among those who feel the changes are not happening fast enough...
Lawyers pointed out that the City and its Redevelopment Authority must obtain the right to exercise the power of eminent domain from the Commonwaltth of Massachusetts. They stressed that the MTA, as a special agency of the state, also obtains its power from the Commonwealth...
House Bill 1493, "an act to repeal Proportional representation and preferential voting in this Commonwealth," was introduced in the Legislature in January. The citizens of Cambridge, by a narrow margin, voted in last November's election to retain...