Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base and filler for the south access rotary and part of the dredging for the south abutment of the bridge were completed during the last 15 months by the J. F. White Contracting Company of Cambridge (Joseph F. White '14). The land on both sides of the river and the river bottom itself are thick mud, absolutely useless as foundation for construction...
...With a history of ward leadership and prominence in the State Democratic party, McDonough conducts a vigorous, personal campaign, often spending whole days shaking hands with everyone he meets on the street; his goal is 85,000 handshakes before election day. Behind him, McDonough has a large block of South Boston votes plus the backing of a number of CIO unions. Though he would like to match the vote that Hynes hopes for, McDonough's unfamiliarity with the voters in large areas of the city will probably keep him from getting much more than 40,000 votes...
Curley's campaign strategy has been to hold his vote in every ward, while the opponents have tended to concentrate on specific wards. McDonough, digging deep into traditional Curley territory, is working in the South Boston and Charlestown wards. Hynes is more interested in the wards from 10 to 22, Brighton, the Roxbuys, Roslindale and parts of Dorcester. The fact that McDonouglf is working against Curley may very well help Hynes. But, to balance that, whatever votes Oakes takes will come from Haynes and probably not from the other...
Fresh from a junket at Yale, where they asked their hosts why so many students were "white shoes and striped ties," the group will arrive as South Station this afternoon at 2:25 and be met by a Boston Bar Association headed by Professor George K. Gardner of the Law School...
...sexual mores, the South further entangled itself in the guilts bred by the evil of slavery. To buttress his sense of superiority, the Southerner elevated the white woman to an impossible level of "purity" and then, to satisfy his instinctual needs, he turned to the Negroes with their "physical grace and rhythm and . . . psychosexual vigor." Each time that the Southerner "found the backyard temptation irresistible, his conscience split more deeply from his acts...