Word: district
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitterly fought Curley's spending. But, for all their efforts, and despite cases of graft that were obvious even to the public, it was not until 1940 that they were able to make a court tell Curley to "pay or go to jail." In that year, the West Roxbury District Court ordered him to pay $42,000 to the City of Boston in payments of $500 weekly...
Reaching into the public till and job making came to a head in 1941 when the then District Attorney, Richard F. Bradford, charged the incumbent mayor of Cambridge, John W. Lyons, with accepting a one-third rebate on architect's fees for a city building project...
Prior to Plan E, Cambridge voted for its Councilmen through 11 wards. Each Councilman looked after the interests of his own district at City Hall and saw to it that the school janitor who had been so helpful in getting out the vote got a promotion and perhaps a bonus at Christmas...
...full camera crow will be working with 25 undergraduate "extras" who, in the movie, help direct an assistant district attorney and a police sergeant to the University's Department of Legal Medicine...
Scenes to be filmed today show lead actor Ricardo Montalban--the assistant district attorney--arriving in Harvard Square and asking students at Lehman and University Halls for the location of the Department. The students mistakenly send him to the Law School; Legal Medicine is a department of the Medical School...