Word: furcolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacksonian gusto seems to have been eclipsed by the politics of gentility. Nevertheless, the show must go on, if only to amuse the faithful. And this showmanship has been no-where more apparent recently than on Beacon Hill during the last two months, as the young Democratic Hercules, Foster Furcolo, waves his imaginary broom through the marble corridors of Boston's stygian State House...
...Massachusetts Federation of Labor struck a new blow in its fight against the state 3% sales tax on Monday, when it announced the distribution of a 12-page pamphlet assailing Governor Furcolo's proposed tax plan. It called instead for revision of the existing state income...
Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics, last night continued his attack on Governor Furcolo's proposed sales tax and suggested a tax on income from rentals to help ease the state's financial burdens...
...Furcolo's budget was "not a good budget," he charged. He said that his study of state finances, made last year for the A.D.A., had indicated that a budget of about $80 million was needed, about $55 million of which would go to cities and towns...
...economist answered Furcolo's challenge by pointing to possible revisions in the existing income tax laws which, he claimed, would raise "about twice as much as Furcolo expects from the sales tax." His major proposals were...