Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beating odds favor the re-election of James Michael Curley as mayor. Running for his seventh time, Curley has had four previous terms as mayor as well as one session of the Massachusetts governorship and two terms as Congressman in Washington. His past term as mayor was unique in that he passed five months of it in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. Curley has built up a large personal following, though hardly a machine, that will remain solidly behind him next Tuesday. The minimum estimate of his vote is around 80,000 while, if he wins, he will probably...
...health services go, the city is somewhat lax. For instance, the death rate at the Boston City Hospital, according to a Finance Commission report, has increased 27 per cent over the past six years; the death rate for premature babiesis nearly 70 per cent whereas the average death rate for such babies throughout New England is 35 per cent. Boston has a system of health units around the city that were established by Curley but, again, according to the Finance Commission, the pay is not high enough in those units to encourage the employment of competent personnel...
...past, the McKay Endowment has been mainly devoted to the engineering sciences...
...Punishment of defacers of property on football weekends in the past has warned invading celebrants...
...that time, the band will leave the Yard and march over the traditional route down Holyoke, Mt. Auburn, and Mill streets, past the Houses, to the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building. Because of Saturday hour exams, the Band's ranks will be somewhat depleted, but at lest 50 members have agreed to take part in the demonstration...