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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 8, the people will choose a mayor, a city council, and a school committee. Five candidates are in the race for mayor, only three of which are serious contenders. For the School Committee, nine persons are seeking two positions, while the grand total of 87 contenders are fighting to represent the 22 wards in the city council...
...beating odds favor the re-election of James Michael Curley as mayor. Running for his seventh time, Curley has had four previous terms as mayor as well as one session of the Massachusetts governorship and two terms as Congressman in Washington. His past term as mayor was unique in that he passed five months of it in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. Curley has built up a large personal following, though hardly a machine, that will remain solidly behind him next Tuesday. The minimum estimate of his vote is around 80,000 while, if he wins, he will probably...
Comparisons with other cities don't mean too much either. Though New York City has a tax rate of only $29.00 it gets 54 per cent of the New York State revenue which is possibly the highest State revenue in the country; New York also has a two percent sales tax which places some of the tax load on the people who buy in the city. In New Jersey, the municipal tax rates range up to $100 per thousand but, just the opposite of New York, New Jersey has only tiny income and corporation taxes...
...track. However, it isn't what induced him to take up jalopies as a pastime. He started going to the races during the summer but found it was getting too expensive to pay his way into the track several nights a week; so Dennison picked up a cheap 1940 two-door Ford sedan, three mechanics, a membership in the National Jalopy Racing Association, and became an insured driver instead of a daring spectator...
...drivers, they are rather well off. They turn over every once in a while and suffer an occasional broken rib, but the injury rate is definitely lower for them than it is for the customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear...