Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each of these minor issues requires a more detailed explanation. First of all, the city's main trouble cannot be attributed to Curley or to any other single person. It is a municipal disease caused partly by the city's antiquity, partly by the large immigrant groups, even more by geography. The city's real problem is one of the decreasing value of land, Since 1906, the assessment valuation of properly in Boston has remained very close to $2000 per capita. As the cost of living has risen, this valuation which normally should follow the trend of the owner...
...wrote to Detroit Free Press sports writer Tommy Devine, the most likely person with whom to argue his point...
...audience of one girl and about 35 men heard comparisons drawn between sex operations in "lower plants" and those in "higher animals." Weston discussed the latency of the opposite sex present in each person...
...stop him. He carried all of his campaigns directly to the people; working sometimes 16 hours a day, he would shake hands with everyone on the street, be present at every gathering i nthe city where he might find votes, distribute money to needy families in person. He claimed marvelous accomplishments and promised even more wonderful ones--often figments of his imagination; in 1932, when he had been active in the national campaign, he pledged to the voters that he would get 30 or maybe 60 millions in Federal relief for the State; the total relief ended up somewhere near...
...That the population then will be roughly 175 million; (2) that the percentage of workers in the population will remain the same; (3) that output per man hour will continue to increase "at about the rate that has prevailed for generations"; and (4) that each person will work only three-fourths of the hours that he does...