Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Volpe managed to get the General Court to pass a sales tax, providing the Commonwealth with much needed additional revenue, the tax measure is virtually his only legislative achievement for the last two years. And the blame for this record cannot be placed on a contumacious legislature; Volpe had few proposals to present...
...four more years. Massachusetts can no longer neglect her obligations in education, justice, and administrative and constitutional reform. The interference of Peter Volpe, the governor's brother, in the selection of architects at the University of Massachusetts and the re-examination of the Inner Belt indicate perhaps the Commonwealth's government is being conducted on principles actually too close to those of the business world...
Edward J. McCormack, however, can provide Massachusetts with the imagination necessary to find new solutions to the Commonwealth's problems. Demands for the reform of the General Court have grown louder through the last few years; McCormack has wisely suggested that a study be undertaken first to determine just what the Court's problems are and also to learn if a structural change is the best way to solve them...
There were many exceptional descriptions and analysis of the Dartmouth game, but the Big Green Football News had the winner: "It was Judgement Day for the Indians in the stronghold of the Commonwealth, and the sentences passed on the Big Green were harsh. Running ten straight in Ivy League action, Coach Bob Blackman's Tribe was charged with disturbing the peace Saturday and lost to Harvard, 19-14. The judging was difficult of course in the courthouse of nearly 40,000 and the decisions, whether snap or researched, must stand. Some villagers were restless...
...unfounded allegation [Oct. 14] that I "recently got around the traditional Orthodox opposition to birth control by ruling that . . . women are free to use contraceptive devices" must appear strangely inconsistent with your statement only seven weeks ago [Aug. 26] in announcing my nomination as Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth: "An expert on medical ethics, he frowns on contraception, points to the low birth rale among Jews, and fears that Judaism may some day vanish entirely." Both statements are wide of the mark and grossly misleading, written without consulting me or carefully reading my writings on the subject. In fact...