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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1930, after James M. Curley had just been elected mayor of Boston for the third time, the fight began at the State Democratic Convention to nominate a candidate for governor. Curley was supporting John F. Fitzgerald, a former city mayor, against Joseph B. Ely, a strong Yankee democrat from...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Colorful Mayor Dominates Boston Political Operations | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

The political hold which Curley has kept over Boston has been a very strange thing; losing as many times as he has won the race for mayor, he can hardly be called invincible. Yet after every defeat, when his opponents predicted the end of bossism in Boston, Curley has displayed...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Colorful Mayor Dominates Boston Political Operations | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

While the current administration was jacking up the efficiency of the municipal government machine, it was also modernizing and adding to the machine's parts. The fire department received new equipment; parking mercers were installed on Cambridge streets; the capacities of the City Hospital, Infirmary and Sanatorium were increased; and...

Author: By Rudolph Kass and William M. Simmons, S | Title: Political Struggle In Cambridge... | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe will have a Yearbook again this year. Four hundred subscription sales piled up last week will give the staff sufficient backing to begin work, Susan Evans '50, editor-in-chief, announced yesterday. Jays Publishing Co., publishers of the yearbook, have guaranteed a minimum book of 96 pages of features...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Yearbook Now Promised As 400 Girls Purchased Subscriptions | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

The cello, on the other hand, frequently could not be heard. On a few rare occasions it could be heard all so much. During the rondo movement of the Sonata G minor and the last movement of the Sonata in A major it went distinctly flat. The general impression created...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

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