Word: district
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Conservative John Flanagan from West Roxbury, son of District Attorney Newman Flanagan, with 10.9 percent; Joseph Casper from South Boston, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, with 8.2 percent; and Althea Garrison from Dorchester with 4 percent...
...addition to the City Council vote, elections for the Boston School Committee and the District Council were held yesterday. Results from those races were not available last night...
John Donovan, the city's chief voter registrar, said the bad weather and the fact that few of the district council races were contested contributed to the low turnout. In some areas, workers canvassing for candidates outnumbered voters...
...Classes were accelerated to allow students to graduate early and join the armed forces. Harvard's president during the war, James Bryant Conant '14, played a large role in developing the atomic bomb. And the University had a special school to train administrators who helped run the American district in Germany after that country's surrender...
...water-management district is also angry. John Wodraska, the district director, claims that the lawsuit is a nuisance that only delays his staff from working on a plan to save the Everglades. Moreover, the suit is costing a fortune in both state and federal funds. Beyond the Justice Department's considerable expenses, the water district's board has spent $980,000 on legal fees and expects to dole out at least $175,000 more a month. Yet a majority of board members seem as recalcitrant as the farmers. "If ((Lehtinen)) wants to fight, let's go ahead," said board member...