Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then appealed for the liberal Democratic vote, while State Treasurer John F. Kennedy relied on his name for nomination. An able City Councillor from Boston, Gabriel Piemonte, tried for the Italian and local vote, with oposition by Roxbury politician Alfred Magaletta. The final candidate, Francis J. Kelley, plastered MTA walls with promises of lowered taxes; he proposed state Sweepstakes as a panacea...
...outcome of the state gubernatorial race may well determine the success failure of the University in its bid to purchase the MTA Bennett St. maintanance and storage yards opposite Kirkland House...
Since the governor exercises sole authority over the trustees who institute MTA policy, either John A. Volpe or Joseph D. Ward would be in a position to negotiate sale with the University. In the past the Administration has offered as much as million for the site, where it hopes construct a tenth House...
Such an action would bring several thousand dollars more in revenue to Cambridge each year and constitute a major improvement over the MTA, which pays no taxes at all on the property...
...when he established the House system, President Lowell negotiated an agreement with the city which exempted from taxation all land "standing in the name of the University and used for academic purposes." The MTA controversy spurred Cambridge legislators last winter to propose a bill which threatened that agreement...