Word: furcolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubled tuition, from $100 to $200 for state residents, to make the pay hike possible. Massachusetts actually profited by the change. Some additional $644,000 would have been obtained, and only $479,000 disbursed to the faculty. Bill 1030, the pay-raise proposal, seemed certain of passage. Governor Foster Furcolo deliberated a special message ("high quality public education is the Commonwealth's greatest natural resource"); President Mather stumped the state and appeared before the powerful Committee on Education; and students rallied to the support of the bill...
...built in the Boston area since 1925. The actual erecting began on May 7. Bad weather and a series of mishaps threatened to make the July 9 opening impossible. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers and stake-drivers were still working. But at 8 o'clock Governor Furcolo was able to officiate at the impressive ribbon-cutting ceremony, backed by the firing of cannon and the blaring of medieval trumpets...
...state senate and front runner in Boston's mayoralty campaign. Powers was not impressed by Mather's plea that the university is already losing able teachers; he was more concerned with holding down Boston's tax rate and sabotaging his political rival, Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who backed President Mather...
When Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo requested a chance to speak to General Electric workers at Lynn last month in defense of his embattled proposal to boost the state sales tax, they deluged him with 200 unfriendly questions, such as: "When are you going to forget your giveaway programs?" "Why don't you do something to stop the disgraceful, wasteful spending of the taxpayers' dollars...
...first state-financed theatre in the country and the first professional theatre built in the Boston area since 1925 was dedicated last Thursday evening by Governor Furcolo in an impressive ribbon-cutting ceremony backed by the firing of cannon and the blaring of medieval trumpets...