Word: selectmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soft breeze blew from the wrong direction. A ripe stench, something like that of Algiers' Casbah district, was wafted into town. The enraged selectmen, prodded by public opinion, quickly got a court injunction halting WFA from planting the four remaining carloads...
Utopia. In Truro, Mass., the town selectmen lost David Francis, the one-man police department, to the Coast Guard, decided he had been a luxury, decided not to replace...
Clean Sweep. In Shutesbury, Mass., the Army at one swoop drafted the chairman of the Selectmen, the chairman of the Board of Public Welfare, the principal of the Center School, the chairman of the Board of Health, the director of old-age assistance, the chairman of the Civilian Defense Committee, the president of the Teachers Association, a trustee of the library, the library's janitor, the school department's janitor, the town identification officer, and a voters' registrar: all the same man, Henry Dihlman...
...Weymouth, Mass., after Federal Works Agency paid $45,450 for 21.9 acres last April, four selectmen turned thumbs down on the defense housing project, left the Government stuck with the land. Whose fault...