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...very risky and daring political ploy. The tax bill which Volpe had signed that morning was one designed to enable the state government to assume the costs of all local welfare programs. In the summer of 1967, the General Court authorized the Commonwealth to take over all the welfare programs administered by the cities and towns. In essence, the Welfare Re-Organization Act meant the elimination of all municipal welfare agencies and replaced them with a state-run welfare department. Aside from assuring higher welfare care standards throughout Massachusetts, the state take-over also meant a considerable easing...
...June 14, University negotiators signed a contract that ended the month-old strike of the Lithographers' and Printers' International Union. Five days later striking Builders and Grounds craftsmen went back to work as the University promised to attend a state-run arbitration and conciliation meeting...
...that the sympathies of most of the B&G men were with it and not with the other unions seeking official recognition as the B&G bargaining agent. Because there were so many unions exercising claims on the right to represent the B&G men, Harvard insisted upon a state-run election as the means of choosing the bargaining agent...
With her platform of "Boston for the Bostonians", and her vigorous opposition to what she calls state-run "social engineering," Mrs. Hicks is the strongest of the parochial Dorchester-South Boston-Charlestown candidates who see Boston ideally as a collection of isolated neighborhoods governed by bulky inbred, slow-moving city bureaucracy. Similar in outlook, with minor idiosyncratic variations, are School Committee member John "Make Boston first, but first make Boston safe" McDonough, State Senator Stephen C. Davenport (D-Jamaica Plain...
...quarters of the civilized globe do the wheels of bureaucracy grind so exceedingly slow as they do in the former realm of the Habsburgs. Thus it came as no surprise to Austrians that when the state-run Kunsthistorisches Museum recently opened a "new gallery," in a suite in Vienna's old Imperial palace, it turned out to be filled with 120 paintings by 19th century French and German artists. The collection had been taken down shortly after the Anschluss of 1938, and not been on display since. Any other country would have hustled them onto museum walls-if only...