Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Books, the Massachusetts Legislature considered and rejected a proposal which would have crippled not only Harvard but every institution of higher education in the state. Messrs. Jordan and Lobel, from Revere and Brighton respectively, introduced a bill to withdraw the exemption from taxation for all colleges in the Commonwealth whose student body does not contain a minimum of sixty-five percent Bay State citizens...
Alfred B. Parkhurst, sentenced last month to two years in the Federal Prison at Chilicothe, Ohio, for stealing $3000 worth of GI subsistence checks, paid the pound of flesh demanded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Middlesex Court yesterday morning, to the weight of two and a half to four years for 13 counts of larceny...
...Attlee stuck to Labor's line that it was the old imperialism that had declined, fallen and been buried beneath the weight of colonial peoples' drive for freedom. Said Attlee: "We do not desire to retain within the Commonwealth and Empire any unwilling peoples...
With last night's 3 1/2 to 1 1/2 victory against the Commonwealth Chess Club in the Kirkland House dining hall, the Chess Club retained its second place position in the "B" division of the Boston Metropolitan Chess League. This was its fifth victory in the seven contests played so far this term...
Realizing that such beverages would be more desirable in the Carolinas than in the Commonwealth, he pleaded extenuating circumstances, curtailed supplies, and offered reciprocal trade agreements with Canadian Club...