Word: furcolo
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Several Harvard students were among the more than 6000 voluteers fighting forest fires in Plymouth and other parts of Massachusetts yesterday. Governor Furcolo has called for more volunteers to assist in the fire-fighting...
...game performance of the Harvard Band will feature a parody of Yankee manager Casey Stengel when the Boston Red Sox meet the world champion New York team in the '57 baseball opener tomorrow at Fenway Park. The Band will also pay "Wintergreen" in tribute to Governor Foster Furcolo...
Williams, who was elected last fall to an unprecedented fifth consecutive term, yesterday visited Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo, also a Democrat, and spoke briefly before the Massachusetts House...
...Furcolo, however, claims that an income tax revision could never produce enough revenue, despite his earlier assertion that "of all the taxes there are, I think the sales tax is the last that should be enacted." His Democratic opponents, on the other hand, claim that the sales tax, in any form, would unjustly affect the lower income classes and inaugurate "the greatest orgy of spending in Massachusetts history," according to Professor Soloway...
...Furcolo has responded by "going to the people" in an effort to win needed bi-partisan legislative support for his proposals, speaking to local audiences in more than 20 cities. His opponents have similarly turned to the public, but without the benefit of being allowed to debate with the Governor. While Labor groups have by and large rallied to the support of the "properly revised graduated income tax," city leaders and business interests--viewing any income tax as a threat to their competitive position--are backing the Governor...