Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scuffle for election as U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth this year is a friendly one, devoid of low blows and rabbit punches. Neither Senator Leverett Saltonstall nor the challenger, John I. Fitzgerald, have called each other a spade, and whispers are currently inaudible. The two nominees are old friends, having served together in the State Legislature. Their sons served together overseas in World...
Harvard's Committee for Wallace will join with other Young Progressives and with the Longshoremen's Union this morning in picketing the "scab ship" S.S. Mount David, currently docked at Commonwealth Pier...
...Catholic Church is not covertly ordaining justices of the Commonwealth; nor is it even raiding the Commonwealth treasury for funds for its parochial school children. In leading the opposition to the amendment which would encourage birth control, it is exercising its right of free speech while fulfilling its sacred duty of keeping all men from moral harm...
...important facts are these. In 1879, one of the so-called Blue Laws was passed making it illegal to advertise or give information about contraceptive devices. As medical knowledge increased and Victorianism waned, the law sank into oblivion. In 1938, however, when birth control clinics were flourishing throughout the Commonwealth, the old law was unexpectedly enforced when the Salem Clinic was raided by police and the doctors arrested. The Supreme Court of the Commonwealth upheld the police action followed by the closing of all the clinics. Thus Massachusetts became one of the two states in the Union where contraceptive advice...
MAINE: Registration must be made IN PERSON. Absent registered voters may request ballots by mail to the city or town clerk of the place of residence or to the Secretary of the Commonwealth at any time before the election. Ballots are to be notarized and returned to the appropriate official 24 hours before the polls close on election...