Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 140 Cantabrigians stepped on to American soil. At the beginning of the decade, John Winthrop arrived and became the first governor of Massachusetts. Three years later came Thomas Hooker, former Dean of Emmanuel College, who eventually trudged off into the wilderness to establish the first settlement in Connecticut. Meanwhile, Cantabrigian Roger Williams was off in the direction of Rhode Island and "a third New England state had been brought to birth by a Cambridge graduate...
...Connecticut officials have stopped a Yale student who was giving haircuts without charge, asking only for tips in return...
Hammonasset Beach will replace Derby, Connecticut, as the backdrop of the frolic which has been revamped to include intramural sports, a rugby match, less liquor than usual, and a new "attitude of restraint." The new site is 25 miles east of New Haven on route...
...Bayonne, N.J., with appropriate ruffles and flourishes, Connecticut's handsome Governor John Lodge was piped aboard the 33,000-ton carrier Tarawa, officially "adopted" the ship in the name of his state,* and announced that a Citizens' Committee had been set up to play the part of friends to the ship's officers and crew...
...bills in Connecticut would effect all educational institutions from pre-nursery on to graduate schools. They would be administered by an already-existing Fair Employment Practices Commission. The power to receive student complaints and to investigate schools would be added to the commission's present powers...