Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where insurance is a must for registration, the mutual companies present a real problem. A fifteen year old auto and a college boy at the wheel, they regard as a poor risk, and more than one wearer of the crimson has been reduced to invocation of the regulation that a twice rejected car must be referred to an insurer by the state...
Fiercely lashing out at "sit-down strikers" of 1946 who are withholding vital necessities from the public in the hope of inflationary price rises, Maurice J. Tobin, Governor of the Commonwealth, last night urged the Government "to seize a portion of the cattle now grazing on the ranges of the West. We drafted men to fight the war--there's nothing wrong, or as it has been charged 'Communistic," in our drafting meat to feed the American people.." He spoke at a Democratic panel sponsored in Rindge Hall by the Cambridge Chapter of the American Veterans Committee...
...Presiding Bishop-elect of the Protestant Episcopal Church (TIME, Sept. 30), has joined thousands of other Americans in a heartbreaking project: house-hunting. Because his new job's headquarters will be in Manhattan, the Bishop must give up the comfortable, diocese-owned brownstone house on Boston's Commonwealth Avenue, when he takes office on Jan. 1. In New York he will not find the same hospitality: the Episcopal Church owns no permanent home for its Presiding Bishop...
...their beans. The old-fashioned way is best, and that proposition is one that candidates never argue. Massachusetts' constitution dates back 150 years, has been reworked by several conventions, and now carries over seventy amendments on the original skeleton. The state is not a state at all, but a "Commonwealth," and the Legislature officially is the "General Court...
...propel a man into office when nearly every other name on the party slate is snowed under. Exactly that happened in 1936, when young Henry Cabot Lodge steamrollered one James M. Curley in the Senatorial race while the New Deal was winning 46 states and almost every other Commonwealth office on the ballot...