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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor." It was in this connection that one of the most famous of the Curly quips came. A reporter suggested that one of Curley's night trips to a disaster scene during the 1936 floods, was a little over-melodramatic. Replied Curley, "Well, they won't have as much trouble finding me as they had finding Coolidge the night of the Boston police strike...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Colorful Mayor Dominates Boston Political Operations | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

Atkinson has had his Councils in the past well under control. Transactions dealing with job appointments and contracts awards in the past may not have been all pristine in their political purity, but there is no more and probably much less dishonesty in the Cambridge administration than in other municipalities in the United States...

Author: By Rudolph Kass and William M. Simmons, S | Title: Political Struggle In Cambridge... | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

Unfortunately for Dulles, it is not so much in the field of foreign policy that the Senate needs liberalizing influence. Whereas no important foreign policy measures collapsed in the upper house last session, the Administration's progressive domestic policy got surprisingly little support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Race | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

...here that Lehman has the advantage. While Dulles has been attacking government spending, "statism," and his opponent's "communist" support, Lehman has gone along with President Truman's domestic policy all the way. The ex-governor and former director of UNRRA has defended the principles of the much-maligned "welfare state," and favors repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, extension of social security, and federal aid to education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Race | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

...cello, on the other hand, frequently could not be heard. On a few rare occasions it could be heard all so much. During the rondo movement of the Sonata G minor and the last movement of the Sonata in A major it went distinctly flat. The general impression created was that Mr. Brown was nowhere near up to the technical standards that the piano was setting. He played too quietly and lacked the precise timing necessary in the fast movements...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

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