Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University officials have held one conference with a Cambridge citizens' committee in an attempt to iron out Harvard-Cambridge financial relations and reach some lasting settlement of the vexing tax question, it was learned last night...
...consistent assailant of Harvard's tax-exempt position, the lanky young politician may ride into office next fall as Cambridge's new mayor on this very issue. For it is no secret around the city that he is the incumbent Mayor Lyons' most likely successor...
...Council to pass a resolution requiring Mayor Lyons to appoint a citizens' committee to confer with University Hall. And it was the same McNamara who on Tuesday night reopened the question when he traced for the Council the tripling of Harvard's tax-exempt real estate value since...
...committee obtains a settlement favorable to Cambridge, much of the credit will go to McNamara; if Cambridge comes out on the short end, it is more than likely that McNamara will wage a prolonged anti-Harvard campaign, playing on resentment at the University's vast holdings which city tax-collectors cannot touch, as a stepping stone to the Mayor's office...
McNamara feels that the tax question is at the root of Harvard-Cambridge friction. In an interview yesterday he described Harvard's mushroom-like growth since 1920 as an increasing burden on a depression-ridden industrial city...