Word: somes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generally, the election issue is whether or not to re-elect Mayor Curley. An extravagant administrator, Curley has spent every cent he can get his hands on plus some of the future tax money, to employ everyone he can. He has, too, allowed even fostered sources of flagrant graft in...
Comparisons with other cities don't mean too much either. Though New York City has a tax rate of only $29.00 it gets 54 per cent of the New York State revenue which is possibly the highest State revenue in the country; New York also has a two percent sales...
Of course the candidates have favorite theories about their opponents. Both McDonough and Hynes call Curley a jailbird and point out that he's too old to do a good job. The two, also, call each other some names: Hynes accuses McDonough of being a young Curley while McDonough thinks...
Worse than this for the city's finances, some property owners pay lower taxes by having their assessed valuation lowered; the tax officials who do this lowering charge the land owners exorbitant fees. Such practices have discouraged many industries from remaining in Boston and have repulsed capable administrators from City...
Some $6,600,000 of the $15,700,000 now in the McKay Endowment has not yet been allocated. Two million dollars of the new funds have already been given to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics which was established in...