Word: towed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tierney pointed out that every police officer in the Harvard Square area had been given lists of out of state cars which had been tagged several times. "Our men have instructions to tow them in whenever and wherever they see them," Tierney declared. But he quickly added that the police did not discriminate against students. "It's just that the students seem to violate the parking regulation more than anyone else," he said...
...warm Indian summer afternoon last week, a vigorous, white-haired man, caddying his own golf bag with an aluminum tow cart, strode briskly down the fairways of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Sporting a jaunty white cap, grey flannels and a checked shirt with the sleeves rolled to the elbows, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent neither looked nor acted his 74 years...
...Manhattan, the battle of Central Park was joined when outraged mothers, with toddlers and perambulated infants in tow, formed a human barricade to stymie a bulldozer sent to flatten the flora on a half-acre dear to the kiddies but now slated to become a parking lot for patrons of the park's fancy-menued Tavern-on-the-Green. The man behind the man who manned the 'dozer: New York City's fireballing, thin-skinned Park Commissioner Robert Moses. He lost no time putting down the citizens' rebellion, had a storm fence thrown up around...
Councilor Alfred Vellucci suggested that parking could be discouraged by signs on alternate side of streets when the cleaning operation is scheduled to take place. Councilor Joseph A. De Guglielmo '29 insisted, however, that the problem could only be handled if an ordinance authorized police to tow away the cars...
Meanwhile, Boston Police Chief Thomas F. Sullivan issued an order banning all parking in the city after 6 p.m. yesterday. Sound trucks were dispatched to prevent shoppers from parking on the streets, and the police announced that they would tow all cars away after the deadline...