Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to the bid by the University to pay $1 million over the market value to buy the MTA lots on the Charles River, McNamara stated, "Cambridge is entitled to first priority on land like that, on which city loses a lot of taxes." The mayor said that the city would "make every effort" to buy the MTA land, if the Transit Authority chose to sell...
...McNamara said that he hopes to meet with officials from the University and the Massachusetts institute of technology in the near future to discuss plans for expansion of the two institutions and to arrive at an agreement. The mayor claimed that slum areas often surround a collage area because no one knows where the collage will build next. McNamara indicated that in a meeting with University officials, he had sought an understanding of exactly where and how it plans to expand. The offer to buy the MTA land "brought the issue to a head," McNamara said...
Full House. While oil companies, hotels and airlines started their own credit cards years ago, the fast-growing new market for a broad new type of card was pioneered in 1950 when Lawyer Ralph E. Schneider, 49, Hollywood and Broadway Producer Alfred Bloomingdale, 42, and the late Frank X. McNamara founded Diners' Club. They built up a roster of 17,000 restaurants, hotels, motels and specialty shops that were glad to pay them a 7% fee for the business of their 750,000 members...
...record to which Michigan's union-backed Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara seemed oblivious this week when he declared in a TV interview that if the Teamsters "really want" Hoffa, "I'll go along with that, because they're all my constituents...
Soon after their arrival in Cambridge, the Russians will hold a press conference in Winthrop House. The N.S.A., the Radcliffe Student Government Association and the Russian Research Center have arranged several receptions and dinners for them and they are scheduled to meet Cambridge Mayor Thomas M. McNamara...