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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow Boston voters will elect a new mayor for a city that is sick. Patronage pressures have expanded the city payroll to extravagant size, boosting the city budget. The incredibly high real estate tax--now $101.20 per $1000 assessed--has discouraged new building and driven some long established business to...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Boston's Campaign: A Pun Against a Promise | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Boston already collects more taxes per capita than any other city in the nation--and nearly all this money comes through a real estate levy that is both too high and unequally assessed. The answer to the problem, says Powers, is not new sources of income, but reforms within the...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Boston's Campaign: A Pun Against a Promise | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Collins too favors radical economies. Poetically, he demands that the city eliminate "the drones, the fakers, the coffee-break takers." In addition, however, Collins has taken the politically dangerous position of endorsing a sales-tax program similar to that proposed by Governor Furcolo and defeated through the efforts of Senator...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Boston's Campaign: A Pun Against a Promise | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

The orchestral accompaniment had its exciting moments, especially as in the extended tutti passages, but it was not an altogether easy collaboration. There had obviously not been enough time to become sure about catching the end of the solo runs, with the result that the last movement sounded grim and...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

I have appreciated the clarity of your coverage of the issues involved in the current discussion of the disclaimer affidavit under the National Defense Education Act. As I get a sense of student opinion from your columns and from casual discussions, I realize that quite a few students feel that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NDEA | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

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